Elvia Wilk, “Trauma Machine” (2018)
Elvia Wilk on rewiring empathy with virtual reality.
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Judith Shulevitz, “Alexa, Should We Trust You?”
The voice revolution has only just begun. Today, Alexa is a humble servant. Very soon, she could be much more—a teacher, a therapist, a confidant, an informant.
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Sasha Costanza-Chock, Design Justice, A.I., and Escape from the Matrix of Domination (2018)
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Fiona Barnett, Zach Blas, Micha Cárdenas, Jacob Gaboury, Jessica Marie Johnson, Margaret Rhee, Queer OS: A user’s manual (2016)
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Lou Cornum, The Space NDN’s Star Map (2015)
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Decolonial aesthetics (2011)
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Stephanie Dinkins, Conversations with Bina48
Can an artist and a social robot build a relationship over time? Artist Stephanie Dinkins and Bina48, one of the worlds most advanced social robots, test this question through a series of ongoing videotaped conversations.
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Stefano Harney & Fred Moten, Undercommons (2013)
In this series of essays Fred Moten and Stefano Harney draw on the theory and practice of the black radical tradition as it supports, inspires, and extends contemporary social and political thought and aesthetic critique.
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Maya Ganesh, “Technologies of Identity in Digital India” (2017)
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Marina Garcés, “What are we capable of?” (2008)
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Kéfir & Vedetas, “# From Steel to Skin Manifesto” (2017)
A four-handed raw manifesto by Nanda from Vedetas, transhackfeminist brazilian server and Nadège from Kéfir, a feminist libre tech co-op.
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Nadège, “Keywords of the Internet. Fraying Edges of Algorithmic Production” (2018)
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Nadège, “Feminist Autonomous Infrastructure in the Internet Battlefield: From Zombies to Ninjas” (2017)
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A Parede, Yarn Sessions (2017)
A Parede on Yarn Sessions, a pedagogical framework which uses storytelling as its main device.
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Possible Bodies
Jara Rocha and Femke Snelting on their Possible Bodiesinventory, a collaborative research on the very concrete and at the same time complex and fictional entities that "bodies" are, asking what matter-cultural conditions of possibility render them volumetrically present.
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Olivia Rosane, “Empathy Machines” (2018)
Olivia Rosane on fellow feeling as a technologically mediated experience.
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Spideralex & Sophie Toupin, “Introduction: Radical Feminist Storytelling and Speculative Fiction: Creating New Worlds by Re-Imagining Hacking”
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