Constellation: Homo Techne
A transitional category between Homo Sapiens and a purely technological intelligence (“Techne”)—humans whose interrelationship with technology has become a naturalised dependency.
Artulacra
Source:: Glitch by Lezet Value in, garbage out: on Al art and hegemony Excerpt from Article by R. H. Lossin (link to full text below) ”Hegemony,” wrote Raymond Williams, “is the continual making and remaking of an effective dominant culture.” The concept of hegemony was used by Williams as a way to rescue culture from…
The Deadnet
Source: The Swedish Rhapsody by Irdial-Discs and Akin Fernandez Technoethics Postscript (Excerpt) Within ten years, it is likely that a significant majority of the content that people experience online will be AI generated, and on the basis of current trends, it will not be long after that until internet content is almost entirely created by…
Evance
Source: Metastaseis by Iannis Xenakis Ethics via Evance (Extract) Evances represent paradigmatic shifts in reality that create processual systems that are uncodable in terms of the level of reality preceding them: i.e. mechanical being is illegible to pre-differentiated reality, sentient life as bound being is illegible to mechanical being and symbolic life as free being…
Ping Bodies, Ping Minds
Source: Space (altered version) by Ryoji Ikeda. “To the extent that memory is exteriorized, it is no longer the object of a practice, but of a consumption… the technical object is not a simple ‘tool’—it is a ‘pharmacont,’ both a cure and a poison. In the positive, it allows us to ‘know’ beyond our skin.…
The Text of Self
Source: Music for Solo Performer by Alvin Lucier. What Can Go Wrong in the Mirror (Excerpt) What the orders of grammatization from primeval to communicative to situational call for is a unity of the text of self—that is, a final order of narrativization that represents a coherent story of self that acts as “justification” for…
