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What Makes Intelligence Artificial?

Thinking with the Technosphere (from the Zone to the Stack)

a workshop for the Strelka Institute for Media, Architecture, and Design
Moscow, Russia
13-16 February 2017

Description

The workshop charts the histories, graph nodes and vertices, layers and currents from the Zone to the Stack and back. Drawing an arch from Thomas Pynchon's seminal 1973 novel Gravity's Rainbow to Benjamin Bratton's The Stack, we investigate a variety of topics from media history, artificial intelligence, techno-ecology and philosophy to Deep Learning and Deep State operations; from the world's first intelligence service (the Jesuits) to its last (Erik Prince's Frontier Services Group); from anonymous and autonomous warfare, and from the V2 rocket to the Mirai botnet.

Readings

Benjamin H. Bratton, The Stack (2016)
Benjamin H. Bratton, Outing Artificial Intelligence. Reckoning with Turing Tests (2015) Gilles Deleuze & Felix Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus (1980)
Paul N. Edwards, A Vast Machine. Computer Models, Climate Data, And the Politics of Global Warming (2010) Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan, Agents of History Autonomous agents and crypto-intelligence (2008)
Eric Hörl, General Ecology (2017)
Elsa B. Kania, Battlefield Singularity: Artificial Intelligence, Military Revolution, and China’s Future Military Power (2017)
Friedrich Kittler, The World of the Symbolic. A World of the Machine (1997)
Morris Kline, Mathematics. The Loss of Certainty (1982)
Jacques Lacan, Cybernetics and Psychoanalysis (1955)
Jason W. Moore, The Capitalocene Part I: On the Nature & Origins of Our Ecological Crisis (2014)
Thomas Pynchon, Togetherness, Aerospace Safety 16, no. 12 December 1960
http://www.pynchon.pomona.edu/uncollected/together.html
Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow (1973)
Milo Rau/IIPM, General Assembly (2017)
Samo Tomsic, The Capitalist Unconscious. Marx and Lacan (2017)

The Future of AI Act, US Senate Bill (2017)

Films

Jean-Luc Godard, Alphaville (1965)

Schedule

13.02.18

10h00 - 11h30
1.1 War Without End

/ Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow (pp. X-Y)
/ Paul Angus, Facing the Anthropocene (pp. X-Y)

11h45 - 13h15
1.2 Other Questions Concerning Technology

/ Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow (pp.x-y)
/ Kittler
/ Martin Heidegger, "The Question Concerning Technology"

14h30 - 16h00
1.3 Ecologization of the Technosphere

/ Eric Horl, "Introduction," General Ecology (pp.x-y)

16h15 - 17h45
1.4 TBC

18h00 - 19h30
1.5 TBC

14.02.18

10h00 - 11h30
2.1 Cephalization

/ Sanford Kwinter, "Neuroecology: Notes Toward a Synthesis," The Psychopathologies of Cognitive Capitalism, ed. Warren Neidich (Berlin: Archive Books, 2013), 313-334.

11h45 - 13h15
2.2 TBC

14h30 - 16h00
2.3 TBC

16h15 - 17h45
2.4 TBC

18h00 - 19h30
2.5 TBC

15.02.18

10h00 - 11h30
3.1 Cognitive Science Fiction

11h45-13h15
3.2 TBC

14h30-16h00
3.3 TBC

16h15-17h45
3.4 TBC

18h00-19h30
3.5 TBC

16.02.18

10h00-11h30
4.1 TBC

11h45-13h15
4.2 TBC

14h30-16h00
4.3 TBC

16h15-17h45
4.4 TBC

18h00 - 20h00
4.5 Final Workshop Discussion

17.02.18

10h00
Visit to Maslenitsa Festival, Nikola Lenivets