Authors:
Peter Pomerantsev
Abstract: An examination of the “propaganda of unreality” and why age-old principles of resistance to manipulation don’t work against today’s style of unreality. PubDate: Wed, 23 Oct 2019 19:36:37 GMT
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Nina Lutz
Abstract: A look at how makeup can be used to completely transform identity, and how these transformations impact our understanding of real and fake. PubDate: Wed, 23 Oct 2019 19:34:44 GMT
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Julia Ebner
Abstract: An examination of alt-tech online ecosystems and the dangers these hotbeds of self-reinforcing extremism pose to security, politics and society. PubDate: Thu, 05 Sep 2019 21:42:48 GMT
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Benjamen Walker
Abstract: Is there room to mix nonfiction and fiction, reality and unreality, on the radio (or anywhere else for that matter) at a moment where unreality has become a political strategy' PubDate: Thu, 05 Sep 2019 21:41:59 GMT
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Brandi Collins-Dexter
Abstract: Brandi Collins-Dexter from Color of Change responds to Friedberg & Donovan’s essay “On the Internet Nobody Knows You’re a Bot” PubDate: Tue, 13 Aug 2019 19:48:28 GMT
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Brian Friedberg; Joan Donovan Abstract: An exploration of what happens when politically motivated humans impersonate vulnerable people or populations online to exploit their voices, positionality and power. PubDate: Wed, 07 Aug 2019 13:06:56 GMT
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Gregory Asmolov
Abstract: A look at how propaganda has been rewired for the digital age and how this new, “participatory propaganda” mediates conflict, manipulates relationships and creates isolation, both online and offline. PubDate: Wed, 07 Aug 2019 13:03:57 GMT
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Masha Gessen; Ethan Zuckerman Abstract: A discussion on the role of Unreality within politics as narrative, negotiation, and loneliness. PubDate: Mon, 15 Jul 2019 15:39:39 GMT
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Ethan Zuckerman
Abstract: Ethan Zuckerman delves into how the conspiracist community surrounding QAnon represents a hazardous new form of participatory civics and digital storytelling. PubDate: Mon, 15 Jul 2019 15:36:05 GMT
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Maureen Mauk
Abstract: Platform Parental Controls: Coupling the Shortages of Netflix’s Algorithmic Affordances with an Abundance of Parental Guilt PubDate: Thu, 02 May 2019 22:36:10 GMT
Authors:
Ben Tolkin
Abstract: If we want to resist reduction in practice, it’s worth revisiting movements that reacted to previous cultural shifts, Romantic history in particular. How it succeeded—and failed—can show how to achieve real change while avoiding the most dangerous consequences. PubDate: Thu, 25 Apr 2019 18:55:26 GMT
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Hugh Dubberly; Weiwei Hsu Abstract: The first computing machines were so large they filled entire rooms. Today they are ubiquitous, built invisibly into our environments. While it's tempting to view this change within a predetermined space of progress, we can still shape the future on our own terms. PubDate: Mon, 22 Apr 2019 03:43:24 GMT
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Michel Erler
Abstract: How games and game engines can provide new ways of comprehending networked and distributed forms of intelligence. PubDate: Thu, 11 Apr 2019 02:41:28 GMT
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Nora Bateson
Abstract: Are institutions, through compartmentalization, a root cause of the exploitation and reduction that spans relations from gender to ecology' A new language—and a new sense-making—to address the horrors of this exploitation. PubDate: Sun, 07 Apr 2019 18:27:52 GMT
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PostRational
Abstract: Dominant paradigms of ecology reduce life into "parts," failing to articulate the symbiosis of such communities, or of organisms as intricately nested collectives. To understand organisms, we must use the language of symbiotic ecology. PubDate: Thu, 28 Mar 2019 15:03:32 GMT
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Jeffrey St. Onge
Abstract: In a world of total automation and artificial intelligence, what is the role of the human' Mining the history of perfect thinking to better understand its intellectual foundations in the present. PubDate: Thu, 21 Mar 2019 16:50:41 GMT
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Johanna Schmeer
Abstract: Can we design ourselves out of the human-centered practices that have for years dominated the field of design, in turn developing a more inclusive, multi-perspective design approach that utilizes xeno discourses and conceptual design' PubDate: Thu, 14 Mar 2019 14:08:58 GMT
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Scott Penman
Abstract: Current models of game‐playing AI reduce the complexity of the playing scenario, suffusing research with the zero-sum-based language of goals and competition. Through Play, we can resist this myopic orientation of goals in favor of a more creative model and vocabulary. PubDate: Thu, 07 Mar 2019 04:01:52 GMT
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Andre Uhl; Ben Draper Abstract: At their earliest years, children are able to master some of the most complex motor tasks, through intuitive/playful engagement with the world. Does the control-oriented approach to child rearing - when the adult inevitably intervenes - normalize the reductionism we're to resist' PubDate: Fri, 01 Mar 2019 02:15:30 GMT
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Louisa Penfold
Abstract: Exploring how the coming together of a new materialist approach to education with the experimental practices of artists and designers can open up expansive possibilities for children’s creative learning. PubDate: Tue, 19 Feb 2019 19:53:54 GMT
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Emily Marcum; Emily Mendez Abstract: A transdisciplinary discussion of artificial intelligence, biomimicry, data science, and software engineering research. Can we frame the development of evolutionary intelligence in these terms' PubDate: Tue, 19 Feb 2019 14:56:30 GMT
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Mally Anderson
Abstract: Decentralization is the process of dispersing power away from a central authority. It has never been possible on a global scale—until now. But can it foster abundance without excess, multiplicity without superfluity, and complexity without chaos' PubDate: Thu, 07 Feb 2019 00:35:32 GMT
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Matthew Shafer; Matthew Claudel Abstract: Techno-optimists on the vanguard of the so-called Singularity have given rise to a seductive machine: a networked society optimized for exponential growth. How do we manifest alternatives to reductive aggregation' PubDate: Thu, 24 Jan 2019 19:03:48 GMT
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Saahil Jayraj Dama
Abstract: Today too many people are still deprived of basic amenities such as medicine, while current patent laws continue to convolute and impede innovation. But if allowed, AI can provide an opportunity to redefine this paradigm and be the catalyst for change—if. PubDate: Tue, 22 Jan 2019 20:57:54 GMT
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Michael Andrea
Abstract: Resisting reduction as a concept is inherently about the experience of being human. What is it to be human in the modern world' Are all reductions of this experience to be resisted' If not, which parts of the human experience would we want to reduce, or enhance' PubDate: Thu, 17 Jan 2019 16:19:00 GMT
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Carsten Lund Pedersen
Abstract: Silicon Valley conveys a monolithic reliance on exponential presumptions of AI, resulting in Singularity. Consequently, as a collaborative system, does it promote herd behavior in favor of reductionism' PubDate: Thu, 10 Jan 2019 18:56:05 GMT
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