For Machine Use Only: A New Publication by &&& / The New Centre

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We are excited to announce the release of our publication produced in conjunction with Mohammad Salemy’s installation at the 11th Gwangju Biennale 2016.

The book expands on the idea of machinic vision, featuring short texts by a range of thinkers, philosophers and scholars who were asked to contemplate about the possibilities and limitation of a world understood and interpreted by algorithmically-driven forms of artificial intelligence. Our increasing reliance on computation requires us to come up with new ways of thinking about automation and its relationship to the politics of knowledge and our knowledge of politics.

TEXTS BY Jason Adams / Kate Armstrong / Elie Ayache / Benjamin Bratton / Clint Burnham / Lou Cantor / Manuel Correa / Alexander Galloway /Leo Goldsmith / Simón Isaza / Victoria Ivanova / Vaclav Janoscik / Ed Keller / Diana Khamis / Jessica Law / Siwin Lo / Nicola Masciandaro / Gean Moreno / Benjamin Noys / Jeff O’brien / Matteo Pasquinelli / David Roden / Judith Rodenbeck / Rory Rowan / Daniel Sacilotto / Samuel Sackeroff / T’ai Smith / Nick Srnicek / Kate Steinmann / Steven Warrick / Peter Wolfendale

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Sculpture & Post-Media

With this paper I want to carry out a non-philosophical analysis of post-media that aims to bring in its bad object, “analog” sculpture. The process of integrating sculpture into discussions of post-media will involve a Laruellian reduction of the theoretical material of post-media, the latter being typically concerned with virtual, non-object-based or otherwise immaterial practices. […]

SEX IN THE AGE OF CAPITAL

Video recordings of the presentation by Nina Power discussed here, “Materialist Feminism and Radical Feminism: Revisiting the Second Wave in the Light of Recent Controversies,” as well my own, “Vertigos of Materiality: A Marxism of Moments,” are available on the Facebook page “Institute of Social Sciences and Humanities – Skopje.” Also available at that location […]

The Impossibility of Cinema: Intertwinings of “Pre” & “Post” Cinema in Contemporary Art

It no longer makes sense, wrote Anne-Marie Duguet (2009), to search for the absolute essence of cinema, since all its original aspects have become mutable, i.e., those aspects that had defined it in the past. With the hyper-aceleration of the co-evolution of cinematographic techniques, most of the essentialist demarcations about the nature of cinema do […]

Cosmopolitical Parties in the Post-Human Age

Abstract: This is a description and an exploration of current cosmopolitical orientations concerning two major events – the enterprise of human knowledge and the development of capital. The cosmopolitical orientations – the cosmopolitical parties – are shown to be orthogonal to usual macropolitical orientations – left and right. Coalitions between these parties are challenging but […]

What is a Shelter?

Any collective effort is a game of risk with only two outcomes. It is a matter of nothing and of all. Either we construct complex cooperative bonds or cut the same threads and accept the resultant collapse. In facing what could be considered an apparent liminal-historical scenario of our species, we should take issue with […]