Seminar: Algorithmic Intermediation and Smartness
What forms of futurity, speculation, and life do algorithmic intermediations produce? To explore this it seems expedient to focus on “smartness,” a term legitimating—as in the “smart home”—the increased introduction of computation in social life. (...)
Seminar: Governing the Technosphere
How is the Technosphere governed? And how could it be governed otherwise? One way to tackle these issues is by looking at cybernetic finance—showing how a complex system can be overtaken by an excess of self-reference. (...)
Seminar: Techno-Metabolism
In the course of its productive and consumptive functions, the technosphere transforms energy, materials, and information. It uses energy in part to transform information, while information guides the metabolism of energy. (...)
The Aesthetic Origins of the Anthropocene
Given the importance of the “start” for the entire Anthropocene narrative, we should consider an aesthetic approach to the question. (...)
The Multispecies World of Technology
A conversation on ruderal ecologies, unintended landscape design and the pitfalls of Anthropocene discourse. (...)
The Video is Basket Is a Telescope
Caroline Picard and Rohini Devasher in conversation about patterns, noise, chaos, and the contemporary conditions of wonder. (...)
From "Limits to Growth" to Chernobyl
A conversation on the history of the 1972 “Limits to Growth” computer model, management systems, Chernobyl, and the geopolitical power of images in the era of mass surveillance. (...)