Announcing a new journal in partnership with MIT press, now live at journal.antikythera.org.
On May 9–10, 2025, during the opening of The Next Earth: Computation, Crisis, Cosmology at the Venice Architecture Biennale, Antikythera, a research program exploring the philosophy of planetary-scale computation, launched the Antikythera Journal, a new initiative with MIT Press.
The Antikythera Journal, developed in collaboration with Channel Studio, reimagines scholarly publishing for the 21st century. The spring issue of Volume 2025 features 17 articles by twelve author–designer pairs, blending philosophy, speculative design, cinematic fragments, and experimental UX.
Each piece emerges from a close collaboration between theorists, scientists, philosophers, and designers, producing layered investigations into intelligence, infrastructure, and computational systems at scale. Each article functions as its own interface: a dynamic composition of text, image, animation, sound, and code, unified through the Antikythera layer, linking the pieces as parts of a larger cohesive publication.
The inaugural issue includes contributions from Benjamin Bratton, Blaise Agüera y Arcas, Stephanie Sherman, N. Katherine Hayles, Bogna Konior, Philip Maughan, Thomas Moynihan, Sara Imari Walker, Chen Qiufan and Antikythera 2024 Cognitive Infrastructures Studio Researchers. Contributions from collaborating design studios include Channel Studio, Practise, Accept & Proceed, Noviki, Son La Pham, Information Art, GIGA, Neo-Metabolism, Connor Cook and many more.
Now live: serialized chapters from What Is Intelligence?
By Blaise Agüera y Arcas. Print Edition forthcoming September 16, 2025.
We’re also proud to debut the serialized digital release of What Is Intelligence? by Blaise Agüera y Arcas, a forthcoming title from the Antikythera x MIT Press book series, debuting on September 16, 2025. The book explores intelligence as a predictive function of living systems, drawing on neuroscience, cybernetics, and the entropic nature of time to reframe the relationship between artificial and biological cognition.
This serialized release is not merely a text, but a cinematic essay: animated with data visualizations, marginalia, and time-based fragments, designed by James Goggin (of Practise) with Minkyoung Kim and Marie Otsuka.
Available: Chapters 3, 4, and 5, on cybernetics, learning, and the minds of others. Additional chapters will roll out over the summer in advance of the full print edition, due out September 16, 2025, published by MIT Press x Antikythera.
