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Associate Professor in Philosophy of Science Ca' Foscari University Venice PI @erc_aimodels OUTNOW → The Eye of the Master: A Social History of AI (Verso)

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This study of social abstraction took finally material form (sacrificing some trees). For review copies please contact Sebastian Budgen at Verso
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Off to print! Finally my book The Eye of the Master: A Social History of AI is ready. Big thank to @VersoBooks @mckenziewark @KIM_HfG and to Sandro Mezzadra, Simon Schaffer, and Jürgen Renn for endorsements Officially out -> 10 October 2023
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I am humbled (and bumbled too) to be one of the recipients of the ERC Consolidator grant 2022 — it is a prestigious achievement also made possible by the help of all our collaborators and PhD students.
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eflux kindly publishes my text 'Three Thousand Years of Algorithmic Rituals: The Emergence of AI from the Computation of Space'
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The Automation of General Intelligence In the current issue @e_flux journal kindly propagates an excerpt from my book The Eye of the Master @VersoBooks
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As a recognition of years of research, @KIM_HfG received a 1.4 million EUR grant from Volkswagen Foundation to develop a sociotechnical study of AI Cheers to this great team: @haltingproblem @LeoImpett @NouraAlMoubayed Claude Draude!
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Today we are thrilled to announce All Models — an international mailing list of critical AI studies conspired with @haltingproblem @KIM_HfG and a great community of scholars, mathematicians, coders and activists...
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Semester break readings — the magazine Electra just published a text of mine on the economic genealogy of algorithms (to be read against studies of algorithm as "discourse" and "concept").
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"On the Origins of Marx's General Intellect" — Radical Philosophy publishes the essay where I disclose from whom #Marx got the term but more importantly I study his relation with #Babbage to write a materialist theory of machine intelligence
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Status update from my side: I move to Ca' Foscari in Venice as associate professor and start there a new research group – more news soon!
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Dear friends in Barcelona, so long. After a decade, I will be again in town for this lecture at Palau Macaya on April 6. Invisible Work in AI: From the Assembly Line to the Algorithm
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How to Make a Class My essay on Hayek, his neoliberal epistemology and the origins of connectionism out now for the Berkeley journal Qui Parle:
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Today in Florence at 7pm, in a gorgeous day, discussing my book with the residents and fellows of Villa Romana
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Last semester, @negativactivity and me taught together an ambitious course on "abstract labour." The syllabus is now public for anyone interested in discussing and expand these ideas - still a work in progress.
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We are at the HM conference in London Nov 10 to debate the theories of automation before and after AI Also an opportunity to discuss the 'labour theory of automation' at the center of The Eye of the Master @VersoBooks Drop a line if around!
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Machines that Morph Logic: Neural Networks and the Distorted Automation of Intelligence
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"The Nooscope is a cartography of the limits of AI, a provocation to both computer science and the humanities. Any map is a partial perspective, a way to provoke debate. Similarly, this map is a manifesto — of AI dissidents."
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It would be good to reformulate the trite question "Can a machine think?" into the sounder question "Can a statistical model think?" — The Nooscope Manifested
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"Given the degree of myth-making and social bias around its mathematical constructs, Artificial Intelligence has inaugurated the age of statistical science fiction" — an essay for Spheres #5 on the logical limits of AI
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If you are in London at Historical Materialism conference, say hi and check our panel on automation theories at 2pm with Senthil Babu, Paolo Caffoni, @LeoImpett and myself...
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Today, after 17 years [!] I go back to my Alma Mater, the University of Bologna, to give a talk on historical epistemology and AI with Pietro Daniel Omodeo (streaming available)
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Thanks @mysdick @tegabrain @haltingproblem @kjam @TheCreaturesLab @hfg_karlsruhe @volkswagenst for a great critical exchange on 'AI culture' @transmediale — looking forward to expanding this collaboration in a larger research network.
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A new issue of the Journal of Interdisciplinary History of Ideas edited by Pietro Omodeo, Giulia Rispoli, and Rodolfo Garau on geoanthropology — with a text on mine on the metrics of energy and information in the Anthropocene.
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With the new year our ERC @cafoscari officially started: please share this call for a research assistant. 3 postdocs and 3 phds will be announced shortly. Stay tuned! 📡
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CALL 👉Research Assistant Position ERC project AIMODELS Ca' Foscari Venice 1-year, renewable Project investigates the history of AI models and models of intelligence Candidates with MA or PhD in humanities Deadline 29.02.2024
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Impressions from this extraordinary exhibition opening today @cececebe in Barcelona on Tosquelles, revolutionary psychiatrist and master of Fanon, Guattari among others. Francesc Tosquelles: Like a Sewing Machine in a Field of Wheat
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The Aesthetics of Neural Networks — syllabus winter semester HfG Karlsruhe now public
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This week I will give the lecture "What kind of knowledge is machine learning?" as closing keynote at this conference organised by @LabSchaufler
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Wir freuen uns auf die Keynotspeaker:innen unserer Tagung „Künstliche Intelligenz als geistes- & sozialwissenschaftlicher Begriff“ des @LabSchaufler : Elena Esposito ( @faksozunibi ), 1.12. & Matteo Pasquinelli ( @hfg_karlsruhe ), 3.12.! #KIBegriffe #TUDresden
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The program of the workshop Breaking Models organised by @KIM_HfG and Max Planck Institute for the History of Science @MPIWG is finally out. Join us on September 24
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Alleys of Your Mind: Augmented Intelligence and Its Traumas is #openaccess book — download PDF here
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The Eye of the Master: Capital as Computation and Cognition @VersoBooks off to work on this for a year
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The Nooscope manifests for a Machinery Question in the age of AI, to reclaim more collective intelligence about machine intelligence, more public education instead of learning machines and the regime of knowledge extractivism.
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Waving from the PhD symposium @kim_hfg Thanks to the mindful hands of Mariana Silva, Paolo Caffoni, @MaxGruenberg , Arif Kornweitz, Sascha Freyberg, Alan Diaz, @ArianaDongus , Davide Lorenzon, and Guillermo Collado Wilkins Critical gestures by
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Today I present my text "The Arborescent Mind" on the tree as symbolic and logic form at the book lunch of Botanical Drifts, Motto Berlin 6pm
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happy to inaugurate KIM — the research group on critical AI and media philosophy @hfg_ka
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A great overview of the state-of-the-art in AI Studies by @MrsBunz and @claudia_aradau just out for @rphilos
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Our text on left critiques of AI is out -> "Dismantling the apparatus of domination?" with @claudia_aradau thx to @rphilos & @DanielNemenyi
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A sharp review of The Eye of the Master by @roblucas for Sidecar
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For Sidecar, Rob Lucas ( @roblucas ) on the history and politics of machine learning: 'Capitalist production always involved an alienation of knowledge; and the mechanization of intelligence was always embedded in the division of labour.'
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The public mythology of #AI has been always operating on the side of capital with the hidden agenda to foster human stupidity, including racism and sexism. "Ignorance is the mother of industry"
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Intelligence resides in the ramifications of human cooperation rather than in individual mental labour. Machine intelligence mirrors, embodies and amplifies the analytical intelligence of collective labour.
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As in an old dream of mine (or worst nightmare) I walked alone into a spectrally desert Stabi before tomorrow's lockdown. Hope it reopens soon or we'll all go mad.
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The Automaton of the Anthropocene: On Carbosilicon Machines and Cyberfossil Capital [out now for SAQ]
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The rise of #AI in the twentieth century has reminded everyone (including orthodox Marxists) that knowledge can be analysed, measured and automated as successfully as manual labour
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Breaking Models: Data Governance and New Metrics of Knowledge in the Time of the Pandemic A workshop at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, 24 September 2021. In collaboration with @kim_hfg @allmodels_ai
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uberty — great online archive on neorationalism and acccelerationism by Joshua Johnson http://t.co/NQhEK4eESH
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Exploring the Limits of AI — my new course at HfG looking into the black box
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Anomaly Detection: The Mathematization of the Abnormal. PDF of my talk #tm15 http://t.co/W7wni7MN25
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Today in Weimar for this lecture: Three Thousand Years of Algorithmic Rituals: The Emergence of AI from the Computation of Space - everybody's welcome
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Landed in a balmy Barcelona and preparing my talk on "invisible labour as the logic of AI" later at Palau Macaya (talk will be streamed too apparently)
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Governor of the Bank of England has warned: more AI = more Marxism (it totally makes sense to me)
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The machine, as much as money, mediates the relation between labour and capital. Any technology influences the metrics of abstract labour.
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Out now for I'm interviewed about The Eye of the Master @VersoBooks Thanks to Shane Anderson who turned AI mess into friendly words Great issue in the company of Harmony Korine, Irina Shayk, Yeat, etc. A big Gramscian hug everyone
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"There is no intelligence in Artificial Intelligence, nor does it really learn, even though it’s technical name is machine learning, it is simply mathematical minimisation" @danmcquillan /
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Abnormal Encephalization in the Age of Machine Learning, e-flux n. 75
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In Venice @La_Biennale of Music just opened: @arifjgk and me contributed a text for the catalogue: The Sound of Multidimensional Space: How Avant-Garde Music Foreshadowed Artificial Intelligence
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For a labour theory of #AI : according to Babbage and Marx a machine always emerges by imitating a previous division of labour, machine intelligence included
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Thanks to the invitation of Pietro Daniel Omodeo, November 16 I will be at Ca' Foscari University in Venice to give a seminar on 'The Political Epistemology of AI'
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"It was in the utopian socialist William Thompson that Marx encountered the idea of the general intellect and the argument that knowledge may become a power inimical to workers — once it has been alienated by machines"
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We Don't Need More Austerity: We Need Luxury Communism —  @AaronBastani for Vice http://t.co/e1ZQaiUyt1
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@Vmosco Consensus! Braverman and the labour process theory was used to explain the social and economic origins of AI also in this book:
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great gesture of sabotage of symbolic capital. artist BLU deletes the iconic landamark of Berlin he made years ago http://t.co/lt3eyK9Q8i
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Under this ancient banner, this semester I teach a course on the history of algorithms, or better we look back at their economic applications to decipher contemporary AI as division of labour.
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great text on the state of affairs around the Anthropocene by Rory Rowan @e_flux http://t.co/mjcSi7fj3Q
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!! 3000 years of Algorithmic Rituals is right now #3 on Hacker News, one of most popular tech sites in US (h/t @e_flux and @adamhrv )
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It would do good to reformulate the naive question ‘Can a machine think?’ into the theoretically sounder question ‘Can a statistical model think?’ — A Grammar of Error for #AI
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Spanish newspaper @elpais_retina covers my @e_flux text on the history of algorithms
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a journal about research on machines, research with machines, and research as a machine (via @juspar )
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mind map of the course Artificial Intelligence and Its Discontents http://t.co/tnb3bdtfPN
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catalogue of the Nervous Systems exhibition @HKW_Berlin is out #datapolitics
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interesting essay on catastrophe and cybernetics, René Thom and Kurt Goldstein http://t.co/tZxMgF6joQ
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@mckenziewark "The general intellect of the whole community, male and female, is stunted or perverted in infancy by keeping from women the knowledge possessed by men." William Thompson, 1824
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The Economy of Automata, course syllabus at HfG Karlsruhe this semester
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Algorithms watching porn — great essay by Hito on @e_flux http://t.co/mhU1boy0IP
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my text on Michel Serres for e-flux issue 'Politics of Shine' edited by Tom Holert http://t.co/gU5hWe9ggm
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The Polish translation of the AI Nooscope conspired with @TheCreaturesLab manifested here thanks to @mv_utopia . Glad to see this work circulating:
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@TheCreaturesLab The pleasure is all mine, Vlad! Actually we met in Rijeka on invitation of @supperman in 2018 and the first draft looked like this
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[out now!] Alleys of Your Mind: Augmented Intelligence and Its Traumas (Meson Press, 2015)
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"Knowledge becomes an instrument, capable of being detached from labour and opposed to it" - Marx's anticipation of the Dialectics of the Enlightenment, or the origin of the general intellect idea
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"If nature is unjust, change nature” — the xenofemminist manifesto out now @xenofeminism http://t.co/aEs1yitCEJ
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highly recommended: Capitalism in the Web of Life: Interview with Jason Moore @viewpointmag
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"What was developed in the Enlightenment was a modern idea of truth defined by error, a modern idea of knowledge defined by failure, conflict, and risk, but also hope." — David Bates' philosophy of error as quoted in
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Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, and Technoscience — a journal to expand feminist science and technology studies http://t.co/HjE6JnKg7w
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What is the point of work? Technology is making this question ever more urgent | Peter Fleming http://t.co/NiV5C93CbD
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The Abnormal Mind in the Age Machinic Intelligence, course syllabus at HfG Karlsruhe
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Goldman Sachs doesn't care if you raise subjectivities
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The Ultimate Capital is the Sun — an exhibition on metabolism I co-curate opens in Berlin next week http://t.co/E5Plnz2HWr
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