A-Symmetry—Algorithmic Finance and the Dark Side of the Efficient Market
Starting from the Flash Crash of 2010, artist and theorist Gerald Nestler investigates the problem of information asymmetries in high-frequency trading. (...)
Creole Technologies
In this essay David Edgerton introduces the concept of creole technology by foregrounding the varied transformations of technologies that attend to locally specific situations and thereby putting actual and derivative use over invention. (...)
Solid/Solipsism Remedy
Using the slime mold Physarum polycephalum as a many-headed case in point, artist Jenna Sutela delves into the petri dish that is cognition. (...)
Container Love, and Fear
How has the universal standardization of materials, sizes and processes enabled the technosphere to scale to its present scope? (...)
FlatWorld - A document of real/virtual trauma in the Technosphere
What should we make of the “fire walls” between the real and the virtual? Anthropologist Lucy Suchman attends critically to the imaginaries that are realized in the the figuration of places and bodies simulations. (...)
Islands. Colonialism and Geopolitics
Understanding Australia’s phosphate mining history on Banaba puts into context its current controversial relationship with Nauru and Christmas Island. (...)
Rifts, Cycles, and Recycles
The human body produces five hundred liters of urine and fifty liters of feces per year, which is equivalent to about half a kilogram of phosphorus. One day’s urine from an adult is sufficient to fertilize a square meter of cropped area for each cropping period. (...)
Sleeping in Public, Working Like Babies
Sleep is a state where we disengage from the world around us both physically and sensuously. But how does this disconnection play a role in our relations to capital, the pharmaceutical industry and our cognitive plasticity? (...)
The Alien Hand of the Technosphere
Philosopher Matteo Pasquinelli investigates the curious history of the phantom limb syndrome and how it chronicles the confluence of war trauma research, neurology, cybernetics and the philosophy of mind. (...)
The Biosphere in the Cosmic Medium
The historical precursor to the technosphere concept is Vladimir Vernadsky’s holistic delineation of the biosphere, a grand scheme of entangling living and non-living matter. (...)
The Criticality of Phosphorus. Data, Peaks & Politics
The criticality of an element is defined by the relevance of its most important economic applications and the risks, both current and future, to its supply and the sustainability of its extraction and use. (...)
Traumasphere, Thinking through Commodity Violence
Ethnographer S. Løchlann Jain poetically examines how commodities and violence sustain one another in the technosphere. (...)
KAIROS Earthquake Early Warning Application
An algorithmic intermediation between the next mega-earthquake and you: instructions for turning risk into facing up to your danger. (...)
Meet the Technosphere
How can we grasp the immense physical and temporal dimensions of the technosphere and why should we isolate the human agency within it? An argument for taking a metropolitan perspective. (...)
Seminar: Sensing the Insensible
With a critical eye to what aesthetics in/of/through the Anthropocene might mean, we will engage with ways that established forms of perceiving might be transformed in the broadest sense—toward new sensitivities of the long now, and the emergent technosphere that conditions our understanding of it. (...)