Incredible Machines

2014

Volume/Event Contributors:

Alexander R. Galloway, Suhail Malik, Reza Negarestani, Benjamin H. Bratton, Clint Burnham, Michael Ferrer, Jaleh Mansoor, Daniel Sacilotto, Mohammad Salemy, Benedict Singleton, Nick Srnicek, McKenzie Wark, Benjamin Woodard, Jason Adams, Ali Ahadi, Morehshin Allahyari, Julieta Aranda, Amanda Beech, Allison Collins, Samuel Forsythe, Aaron Gemmill, Kate Henderson, Joshua Johnson, Gelare Khoshgozaran, Deneb Kozikoski, Nick Land, Jason LaRiviere, Christina McPhee, Matteo Pasquinelli, Judith Rodenbeck, Brian William Rogers

A spectre is haunting the space of knowledge — the spectre of telecomputation. Unlike the modern age when scientific authority and the idea of objectivity were typically embodied in concrete objects like atlases, encyclopedias, books and photographs, the materiality and credibility of human knowledge in the contemporary moment is determined to a great extent by the gathering and sharing, as well as the algorithmic processing and visualization of digital data. This new space has been materialized by the technical synthesis of mass telecommunication and mass computation, enabling a new kind of collective production of knowledge unseen in human history. Resting upon the computational promise of ever-new developments in hardware, software, and network technologies, a visually dynamic, statistically driven and object-oriented form of structural positivism has emerged as the dominant condition for the production and dissemination of knowledge.

Talk Context

  • incredible-machines-2014 DIGITALITY AND MODERN SYSTEMS OF KNOWLEDGE AT THE THRESHOLD OF THE 21ST CENTURY
  • Conference
  • Vancouver, BC
  • Incredible Machine response
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