Cyborg series
on cognitive assemblages
Rules:
a book chapter or video will be announced to study before the meeting
a place to discuss will be announced
Enroll:
join our signal group:
introduce yourself
Also:
Free and open to all
Safe space for queers and PoCs
If you don’t study the assignment, please make space for those who do
calendarAn ad-hoc study series where we learn and debate extended cognition, new technologies and relevant theories to understand what's ahead.
We meet every other tuesday 6 PM EST. Signal group and notes board.
Notes
Sessions
Apr 18, 2023 7PM EST on jit.si
Show and tell:
Mar 7, 2023
A framework to contest and justify algorithmic decisions (paper), Dude, you broke the Future! (video)
Feb 21, 2023
Jakob von Uexküll’s Concept of Umwelt, Ways of Being on umwelt (4 pages) and Josh Clark's AI Is Your New Design Material (video)
Feb 7, 2023
The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood by James Gleick (chapter 7: Information theory, on Claude Shannon, start at "Shannon had a notion along similar lines.") and Staying with the Trouble by Donna Haraway (chapter 3: Sympoiesis)
Dec 14, 2022
Simulacra and Simulation: Hypermarket and Hypercommodity (page 52) and The Implosion of Meaning in the Media (page 55)
Nov 30, 2022
Introduction to Distributed Communications Networks by RAND and Supersizing the Mind by Andy Clark (chapter 2, The Negotiable Body)
Nov 16, 2022
The Uncut Self by Lynn Margulis and Dorion Sagan
Nov 9, 2022
meshworks, hierarchies and interfaces by Manuel DeLanda