W13RR: Cybersyn Reading The Planning machine sets me off in a melancholic imaginary journey of what could have been. But it's not… Posted on: December 14, 2017 By: Radu With: 0 Comments
W10RR: Computer Generated Creativity The idea of a machine exercising creativity is conceptually seductive. It seems unnatural but plausible, impossible yet demonstrable. Even beyond… Posted on: December 10, 2017 By: Radu With: 0 Comments
W14RR The excerpt from Extrastatecraft provides a very interesting perspective of entities that operate in parallel to national and regional laws… Posted on: December 7, 2017 By: Radu With: 0 Comments
W12 RR: Climate Science The author brings forward a very interesting point which I had not considered: the left has, for a long time… Posted on: November 16, 2017 By: Radu With: 0 Comments
Hito Steyerl Response Governments and corporations collect data and profile people. In the United States, there's little you can do without a credit… Posted on: November 9, 2017 By: Radu With: 0 Comments
I read 'spam' and skimmed through 'Towards a Poetics of Artificial Superintelligence' on a short-fuse day. I didn't get much… Posted on: October 25, 2017 By: Radu With: 0 Comments
Blame the Algorithm It's easy to blame a machine. In looking at the effects of ranking algorithms in democracy, it's easy to get… Posted on: October 11, 2017 By: Radu With: 0 Comments
The Economy of the Back Loop S. Wakefield's Back Loop reflections look at the impending radical changes with a sense of daring optimism. I share the… Posted on: October 4, 2017 By: Radu With: 0 Comments
Empire Against Empire This is a response to the required Metropolarity pieces. I understand, as an outsider, that black people have been oppressed… Posted on: September 28, 2017 By: Radu With: 0 Comments
Looking and Power (Reading Response: Practices of Looking) What's the relation between power and looking? To understand it, we need to first understand the relation between the sign,… Posted on: September 14, 2017 By: Radu With: 0 Comments