Tactics&Practice [podcast]

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S1 [Scale] E1: Matter as a Subject [w/ Laura Tripaldi]

2023-08-1139:56

On the nanoscale, materials can appear as vibrant, lively subjects that can even have political implications... The post S1 [Scale] E1: Matter as a Subject [w/ Laura Tripaldi] appeared first on Aksioma.

S1 [Scale] E2: Alternative Networks in Cuba [w/ Steffen Köhn & Nestor Siré]

2023-08-1741:37

Alternative community-based data distribution networks on the local scale have emerged in Cuba as a consequence of the economic sanctions imposed on the country in recent decades... The post S1 [Scale] E2: Alternative Networks in Cuba [w/ Steffen Köhn & Nestor Siré] appeared first on Aksioma.

S1 [Scale] E3: Russian Neocolonialism as Demonic Possession [w/ Anna Engelhardt & Mark Cinkevich]

2023-08-2444:57

Infrastructures of abnormous scale are the materialisation of neocolonialism. Megabridges, power plants, military bases are means of dispossession, invasion, extraction perpetrated by bigger countries upon smaller sovereign states... The post S1 [Scale] E3: Russian Neocolonialism as Demonic Possession [w/ Anna Engelhardt & Mark Cinkevich] appeared first on Aksioma.

S1 [Scale] E4: Neocolonial Extraction and Surveillance [w/ Anthony Downey]

2023-08-3143:17

The concept of scale is related to mapping, which is intrinsically related to colonisation and neocolonial military practices... The post S1 [Scale] E4: Neocolonial Extraction and Surveillance [w/ Anthony Downey] appeared first on Aksioma.

S1 [Scale] E5: Reality as a Scalar Effect [w/ Jussi Parikka]

2023-09-2139:35

To complexify the notion of scale and to expand it, both historically and beyond human perception, allows us to think about scale within different academic, design and artistic vocabularies... The post S1 [Scale] E5: Reality as a Scalar Effect [w/ Jussi Parikka] appeared first on Aksioma.

S2 [(re)programming] E1: Trigger [w/ Kim Stanley Robinson]

2023-10-0301:27:06

Kim Stanley Robinson stands as one of today’s most beloved science fiction writers and is a prominent exponent of climate fiction... The post S2 [(re)programming] E1: Trigger [w/ Kim Stanley Robinson] appeared first on Aksioma.

S2 [(re)programming] E2: Infrastructure [w/ Benjamin Bratton]

2023-10-0301:41:02

Benjamin Bratton is an American Philosopher of Technology, known for his work spanning social theory, computer science, design, AI, and for his writing on the geopolitical implications of what he terms “planetary scale computation”... The post S2 [(re)programming] E2: Infrastructure [w/ Benjamin Bratton] appeared first on Aksioma.

S2 [(re)programming] E3: Energy [w/ Holly Jean Buck]

2023-10-0301:12:45

Holly Jean Buck works at the interface of environmental sociology, international development, and science and technology studies... The post S2 [(re)programming] E3: Energy [w/ Holly Jean Buck] appeared first on Aksioma.

S2 [(re)programming] E4: Interdependence [w/ Anab Jain]

2023-10-0301:05:45

Future is not only about data and trends, it is about imagination. The work of designer and filmmaker Anab Jain transports people into the future... The post S2 [(re)programming] E4: Interdependence [w/ Anab Jain] appeared first on Aksioma.

S2 [(re)programming] E5: AI [w/ Kate Crawford]

2023-10-0301:25:01

Kate Crawford is a leading scholar on the social implications of artificial intelligence. Her book ATLAS OF AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence is the culmination of a five-year-long research into materiality of AI... The post S2 [(re)programming] E5: AI [w/ Kate Crawford] appeared first on Aksioma.

S2 [(re)programming] E6: The Cloud [w/ Joana Moll]

2023-10-0301:12:28

Joana Moll is a Barcelona/Berlin-based artist and researcher. Her work moves towards a crossover between art and investigative journalism with the aim to make public the hidden costs of techno-capitalism... The post S2 [(re)programming] E6: The Cloud [w/ Joana Moll] appeared first on Aksioma.

S2 [(re)programming] E7: Community [w/ Astra Taylor]

2023-11-1601:41:33

Astra Taylor is an international filmmaker, writer and political organiser. She was part of the Occupy Wall Street movement in 2011, and has been one of its best narrators and critics... The post S2 [(re)programming] E7: Community [w/ Astra Taylor] appeared first on Aksioma.

S2 [(re)programming] E8: Accountability [w/ Eyal Weizman]

2023-11-1601:41:31

Eyal Weizman is a Professor of Spatial and Visual Cultures. He founded Forensic Architecture, where he helped develop a methodology – counter forensics – for analysing cases of human rights violations around the world to provide new evidence against official narratives in international human rights courts... The post S2 [(re)programming] E8: Accountability [w/ Eyal Weizman] appeared first on Aksioma.

S3 [(un)real data] E1: (In)dividuality and the Quantified Self [w/ Felix Stalder]

2024-05-2953:11

The rise of computation in the 1950s shifted society to one constructed purely in commercial terms, where selling and buying have become the main social relation and every possible human form of contact is reimagined as a service or a product. What does this imply for the self? [...] The post S3 [(un)real data] E1: (In)dividuality and the Quantified Self [w/ Felix Stalder] appeared first on Aksioma.

S3 [(un)real data] E2: Could We Stop Reproducing a Deepfake Past? [w/ Wendy Chun]

2024-05-2940:46

Predictive models based on big data are founded on the idea that knowing the past enables us to predict the future, but what kind of future are we constructing when the models are based on a deepfake version of the past? [...] The post S3 [(un)real data] E2: Could We Stop Reproducing a Deepfake Past? [w/ Wendy Chun] appeared first on Aksioma.

S3 [(un)real data] E3: Unmasking AI’s Pixel Puppetry [w/ Eryk Salvaggio]

2024-05-2946:28

What exactly is in the images generated by AI? Is it possible to decode training datasets and detect biases that fusion models, such as Dall-E or Midjourney, reproduce? [...] The post S3 [(un)real data] E3: Unmasking AI’s Pixel Puppetry [w/ Eryk Salvaggio] appeared first on Aksioma.

S3 [(un)real data] E4: How Mind-Flattening Algorithmic Tweaks Ruined Posting [w/ Günseli Yalcinkaya]

2024-05-2938:10

If we paraphrase McLuhan, today’s medium is the algorithm: how is this universal mediator shaping us as content creators and consumers? How does it feel to be online amid different polarising forces, when consensus reality has completely broken down? [...] The post S3 [(un)real data] E4: How Mind-Flattening Algorithmic Tweaks Ruined Posting [w/ Günseli Yalcinkaya] appeared first on Aksioma.

S3 [(un)real data] E5: The Liminal Vibes Beyond Digital Conformity [w/ Valentina Tanni]

2024-05-2947:19

Internet aesthetics like vaporwave, the Backrooms and weirdcore seem to offer glimpses of alternate realities beyond the threshold of the real. From Freud’s “uncanny” to hauntology’s spectral futures, these are aesthetics that revel in the strange, the eerie and the infinitely ambiguous – a messy, chaotic antidote to the ruthlessly curated digital landscapes we’re fed today. [...] The post S3 [(un)real data] E5: The Liminal Vibes Beyond Digital Conformity [w/ Valentina Tanni] appeared first on Aksioma.

S4 [The Future Behind Us] E1: PsyOps and Other Secret Military Programmes [w/Trevor Paglen]

2024-08-2336:58

Over the years, Trevor Paglen has documented operations, locations and activities that were meant to remain hidden from the public. He has tracked and photographed the world of secret satellites, flew in a helicopter over the NSA headquarters with the express purpose of taking aerial photographs of it and [...] The post S4 [The Future Behind Us] E1: PsyOps and Other Secret Military Programmes [w/Trevor Paglen] appeared first on Aksioma.

S4 [The Future Behind Us] E2: Decolonising Museum Collections [w/ Nora Al-Badri]

2024-08-2830:43

The discussion about the growing list of looted and illicitly acquired museum treasures is one that most Westerners would rather not think about. Unless a scandal, a protest, a movie or a contemporary artwork forces ex-colonising countries to confront the firm grip that their institutions [...] The post S4 [The Future Behind Us] E2: Decolonising Museum Collections [w/ Nora Al-Badri] appeared first on Aksioma.

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