Issue #85 Reprogramming Decisionism

Reprogramming Decisionism

Luciana Parisi

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Woody Vasulka and Brian O’Reilly, Scan Processor Studies, 2006. Video, 45'.

Issue #85
October 2017










Notes
1

Martin Heidegger, “The End of Philosophy and the Task of Thinking,” trans. J. Stambaugh, in Martin Heidegger, Basic Writings, ed. David Farrell Krell (London: Routledge, 1993), 373–92.

2

Ibid., 376.

3

Ibid.

4

Ibid., 392.

5

Ibid.

6

See for instance Gilles Deleuze, “Thought and Cinema,” chap. 7, in Cinema II: The Time-Image (Oxford: Athlone Press, 2000). See also François Laruelle, “The Transcendental Computer: A Non-Philosophical Utopia,” trans. Taylor Adkins and Chris Eby, Speculative Heresy, August 26, 2013 .

7

See Ronald R. Kline, The Cybernetic Moment: Or Why We Call Our Age The Information Age (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015), 53.

8

Ibid., 56.

9

For example, an AI system observing an image of a face with one eye in shadow may initially only see one eye. But after detecting that a face is present, it can then infer that a second eye is probably present as well. In this case, the graph of concepts only includes two layers—a layer for eyes and a layer for faces—but the graph of computations includes 2n layers, if we refine our estimate of each concept given the other n times.

10

See Aylin Caliskan, Joanna J. Bryson, and Arvind Narayanan, “Semantics derived automatically from language corpora contain human-like biases,” Science 356, no. 6334 (2017): 183–86.

11

Katherine N. Hayles, “Cognition Everywhere: The Rise of the Cognitive Nonconscious and the Costs of Consciousness,” New Literary History 45, no. 2 (2014).

12

Lorraine Daston, “The Rule of Rules,” lecture, Wissenschaftskolleg Berlin, November 21, 2010.

13

Katherine N. Hayles, How We Think: Digital Media and Contemporary Technogenesis (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012).

14

Renée Ridgway, “From Page Rank to Rank Brain,” 2017 .

15

See Rosi Braidotti, Timotheus Vermeulen, Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, Stephen Squibb, and Anton Vidokle, “Editorial: The New Brutality,” e-flux journal 83 (June 2017) .

16

Gille Deleuze and Félix Guattari, What Is Philosophy? trans. Hugh Tomlinson and Graham Burchell (New York: Columbia University Press, 1994), 99.

17

Ibid.

18

Ibid., 10.

19

Gille Deleuze, “On the New Philosophers and a More General Problem,” Discourse: Journal for Theoretical Studies in Media and Culture 20, no. 3 (1998).

20

Reyner Banham, The New Brutalism: Ethic or Aesthetic? (London: Architectural Press, 1966).