Vantablack. Generative AI as premonition
Published in carrier-bag.net , 28 March 2025. Focus: If AI was the answer, what was the question, again?
I collect here my work which, by and large, deals with the (deep) present, at the intersection of cultural, political and technological dynamics. Much of focusses on practices of commoning, datafication, AI, , and transformation of nature, and of subjectivity .
I work as a professor at the Zurich University of the Arts , in the “art:ifical studies” major. I like to teach, I learn a lot this way. What? Here are my syllabi .
If possible, I work collaboratively, with lovely people such as Cornelia Sollfrank, !Mediengruppe Bitnik, Gordan Savičić, Vladan Joler, Ted Byfield, tante, Shusha Niederberger and others.
I’m long-time moderator of <nettime >, a crucial nexus of critical net culture, first for the email list (1998-2023), now for TLDR , its node in the fediverse. I’m a member of the World Information Institute and the Technopolitics Working Group, both based in Vienna.
Contact
DM @festal@tldr.nettime.org, Signal, or email (felix AT openflows com)
Published in carrier-bag.net , 28 March 2025. Focus: If AI was the answer, what was the question, again?
内容简介: 当前的文化与政治等诸多方面均受到数字状况的影响。本书认为,这种影响涉及更多的人参与到有争议的社会意义的协商中。更多的人利用复杂的通信基础设施,同时又被社交媒体所主导,不仅引发了当前的文化、社会与政治现象,还导致新的行为方式的产生。
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Written for Computational Culture
#9 (July 2023). Official Version
Review of Joque, Justin. Revolutionary Mathematics: Artificial Intelligence, …
This is a revised version of my presentation at the New Alphabet School#3 Coding at Goethe-Institut Max Mueller Bhavan, New Delhi on January 16, …
This is the short (I know!) version of a paper, written for the "25 Years of Network Society" Workshop , organized by the Universitat Oberta …
This is my contribution to the catalogue for the exhibition "Entangled Realities – Living with Artificial Intelligence " showing at …
I’m very happy my new book (a translation of Kultur der Digitalität has just been published by Polity Press.
In the book I argue that …
Kurzer Text zu Assange/Wikileaks anlässlich des Filmstarts in Zürich. Es geht mir hierbei nicht um ein Psychogramm (was ich aus der Distanz gar nicht …
mosaik-blog.at 10.11.2015
Die sozialen Massenmedien wie Facebook, Instagram, Twitter oder Linked-In sind, zum gesellschaftspolitischen Problem …
“Nicht der Algorithmus ist pervers, sondern die Situation in der er lebt.”
Die Technowissenschaften haben ein Niveau erreicht, das es …
"Krieg der Daten gegen die Kommunikation" war der Titel, den ich der LMD vorgeschlagen hatte. Wurde wohl aus Platzgründen gekürzt...
Le …
Mein Beitrag in der Berliner Gazette zu den Machtverhätnissen in den Infrastrukturen des Netzes.
Das heutige Internet bietet „out-of-the-box“, und …
via netzpolitik.org
Auf dem “Netz für alle”-Kongress der Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung / Linken Bundestagsfraktion hat Felix Stalder die …
*Here is my contribution to the Social Media Reader edited by Michael Maniberg, 2012
As more of our data, and the programs to manipulate and …
I’m extremely proud that our book on the politics of search engines is out now. I know I’m totally biased, but I really think this is a …
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