MachineMachine /stream - search for nature https://machinemachine.net/stream/feed en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss LifePress therourke@gmail.com <![CDATA[John Carpenter: We Wouldn’t Stand a Chance Against “The Thing”]]> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fShQU7HWcwQ

Stephen is delighted to welcome one of his favorite directors, the Master of Horror himself, John Carpenter. Watch as they discuss his 1982 classic film, “The Thing,” and stick around for a peek into Carpenter’s directing process for his latest project, “Suburban Screams.”

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Fri, 27 Oct 2023 00:35:00 -0700 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fShQU7HWcwQ
<![CDATA[AI Will Upend Election Season - The Atlantic]]> https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2023/04/ai-generated-political-ads-election-candidate-voter-interaction-transparency/673893/

Artificial intelligence is already showing up in political ads. Soon, it will completely change the nature of campaigning. Earlier this week, the Republican National Committee released a video that it claims was “built entirely with AI imagery.

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Mon, 10 Jul 2023 03:51:29 -0700 https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2023/04/ai-generated-political-ads-election-candidate-voter-interaction-transparency/673893/
<![CDATA[Will A.I. Become the New McKinsey? | The New Yorker]]> https://www.newyorker.com/science/annals-of-artificial-intelligence/will-ai-become-the-new-mckinsey

When we talk about artificial intelligence, we rely on metaphor, as we always do when dealing with something new and unfamiliar. Metaphors are, by their nature, imperfect, but we still need to choose them carefully, because bad ones can lead us astray.

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Wed, 10 May 2023 06:52:28 -0700 https://www.newyorker.com/science/annals-of-artificial-intelligence/will-ai-become-the-new-mckinsey
<![CDATA[Anna L. Tsing on Creating ‘Wonder in the Midst of Dread’]]> https://artreview.com/anna-l-tsing-on-creating-wonder-in-the-midst-of-dread/?s=09

Through her writings and the collaborative curatorial platform Feral Atlas, the anthropologist is offering new ways of imagining – and representing – our relationship to nature

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Mon, 31 Jan 2022 01:51:17 -0800 https://artreview.com/anna-l-tsing-on-creating-wonder-in-the-midst-of-dread/?s=09
<![CDATA[Break Bread]]> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41B5YonixBs

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After a few months of “success” on the platform, I sat to contemplate my journey from unknown content creator scraping for views to hot new video essayist and legit “left tuber”. This contemplation led to numerous questions and ponderings, and as I dived into those questions I started to get frustrated the answers that I arrived at. I got tired of people asking me “where have you been this whole time” when I knew I had been just quietly treading water, wondering why my videos weren’t being seen, and wondering why I barely saw any creators in the mold of what I wanted to do.

To explore these emotions, I talked to a variety of creators and experts on the nature of YouTube as a media platform the algorithmic systems that govern it, and the greater culture around it. I delved into my own concerns and observations about the landscape of YouTube, especially “left tube”.

This video is my thesis on what challenges I and other black creators face.

00:00 Intro 02:12 How Did I Get Here? 08:22 The Untold History of Breadtube/Lefttube 33:17 No Favors From the Algorithm 1:09:10 Problems in the Community

Creators Featured Voice Memos for the Void - https://www.youtube.com/c/voicememosforthevoid Jordan Harrod- https://www.youtube.com/c/JordanHarrod/videos The Storyteller- https://www.youtube.com/c/TheStorytellerAJ CJ the X- https://www.youtube.com/c/CJTheX Noah Samsen- https://www.youtube.com/c/NoahSamsen khadija Mbowe- https://www.youtube.com/c/KhadijaMbowe T1J- https://www.youtube.com/c/the1janitor Legal Eagle- https://www.youtube.com/c/LegalEagle Hank Green- https://www.youtube.com/c/SciShow

Channels Mentioned Yara Zayd- https://www.youtube.com/c/Yharazayd Kolpeshtheyardstick- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2Vj51Kp7qPC102MsA98Fww Victory- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8JTStI16odEK-N3JJcMmpw

DJ Trackmatic- https://www.instagram.com/trackmatic_idris/?hl=en https://youtube.com/channel/UCqeWnr-XOv2x8jr2fW72mnA

Resources-

Pewdie Pipeline by Noncompete https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnmRYRRDbuw&t=1029s

The Alt Right Playbook series by Innuendo Studios https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xGawJIseNY&list=PLJA_jUddXvY7v0VkYRbANnTnzkA_HMFtQ

Not So Awesome (channel awesome fall out documentary) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvedKSaHCBQ

Implicit Bias Primer- https://www.simplypsychology.org/implicit-bias.html

Implicit Bias Association Harvard Study- https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/takeatest.html

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Mon, 06 Dec 2021 10:00:09 -0800 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41B5YonixBs
<![CDATA[Life’s Edge by Carl Zimmer review – what does it mean to be alive? | Science and nature books | The Guardian]]> https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/aug/21/lifes-edge-by-carl-zimmer-review-what-does-it-mean-to-be-alive

At a medical research laboratory in California, Alysson Muotri has used chemistry to change skin cells into neurons, which have multiplied to form “organoids” – globes of interconnected brain cells.

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Tue, 14 Sep 2021 03:51:33 -0700 https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/aug/21/lifes-edge-by-carl-zimmer-review-what-does-it-mean-to-be-alive
<![CDATA[The hard problem of consciousness is already beginning to dissolve | New Scientist]]> https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25133501-500-the-hard-problem-of-consciousness-is-already-beginning-to-dissolve/

THE nature of consciousness is truly one of the great mysteries of the universe because, for each of us, consciousness is all there is. Without it, there is no world, no self, no interior and no exterior. There is nothing at all.

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Tue, 14 Sep 2021 03:51:22 -0700 https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25133501-500-the-hard-problem-of-consciousness-is-already-beginning-to-dissolve/
<![CDATA["The world has become weird": crisis, natures and radical re-enchantment - STEPS Centre]]> https://steps-centre.org/blog/the-world-has-become-weird-crisis-natures-and-radical-re-enchantment/

In this essay, Amber Huff and Nathan Oxley reflect on questions that have emerged through Natures, the STEPS Centre’s theme throughout 2020.

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Mon, 18 Jan 2021 06:55:11 -0800 https://steps-centre.org/blog/the-world-has-become-weird-crisis-natures-and-radical-re-enchantment/
<![CDATA[Collective Turn-off – Sophie Lewis – Mal]]> https://maljournal.com/5/sex-negative/sophie-lewis/collective-turn-off/

I think human beings are turned off right now. Of course it is tempting to rationalise our turned-off-ness with reference to Covid-19. But it is not – it can never be – the teeming, vaporous, germinating nature of one another’s bodies that shuts down our erotic appetites.

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Wed, 19 Aug 2020 23:13:10 -0700 https://maljournal.com/5/sex-negative/sophie-lewis/collective-turn-off/
<![CDATA[History as a giant data set: how analysing the past could help save the future | Technology | The Guardian]]> https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/nov/12/history-as-a-giant-data-set-how-analysing-the-past-could-help-save-the-future

Calculating the patterns and cycles of the past could lead us to a better understanding of history. Could it also help us prevent a looming crisis? By In its first issue of 2010, the scientific journal Nature looked forward to a dazzling decade of progress.

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Wed, 13 Nov 2019 17:17:16 -0800 https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/nov/12/history-as-a-giant-data-set-how-analysing-the-past-could-help-save-the-future
<![CDATA[A network of science: 150 years of Nature papers]]> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GW4s58u8PZo

Science is a network, each paper linking those that came before with those that followed. In an exclusive analysis, researchers have delved into Nature's part of that network. We explore their results, taking you on a tour of 150 years of interconnected, interdisciplinary research, as represented by Nature's publication record.

Explore the network yourself: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-03165-4 Read more: https://www.nature.com/collections/eidahgdici/

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Wed, 06 Nov 2019 09:59:56 -0800 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GW4s58u8PZo
<![CDATA[PhD Thesis: The Practice of Posthumanism]]> http://research.gold.ac.uk/26601/

Post-humanism is best understood as several overlapping and interrelated fields coming out of the traditions of anti-humanism, post-colonialism, and feminist discourse. But the term remains contested, both by those who wish to overturn, or even destroy, the ‘humanism’ after that decisive hyphen (post-humanists), and those engaged in the project of maximising their chance of merging with technologies, and reaching a supposed point of transition, when the current ‘human’ has been augmented, upgraded, and surpassed (transhumanists). For both those who wish to move beyond ‘humanism’, and those who wish to transcend ‘the human’, there remains a significant, shared, problem: the supposed originary separations, between information and matter, culture and nature, mankind and machine, singular and plural, that post-humanism seeks to problematise, and transhumanism often problematically ignores, lead to the delineation of ‘the human’ as a single, universalised figure. This universalism erases the pattern of difference, which post-humanists see as both the solution to, and the problem of, the human paradigm. This thesis recognises this problem as an ongoing one, and one which – for those who seek to establish posthumanism as a critical field of enquiry – can never be claimed to be finally overcome, lest the same problem of universalism rear its head again.

To tackle this problem, this thesis also enters into the complex liminal space where the terms ‘human’ and ‘humanism’ confuse and interrupt one another, but rather than delineate the same boundaries (as transhumanists have done), or lay claim over certain territories of the discourse (as post-humanists have done), this thesis implicates itself, myself, and yourself in the relational becoming posthuman of which we, and it, are co-constituted. My claim being, that critical posthumanism must be the action it infers onto the world of which it is not only part, but in mutual co-constitution with.The Practice of Posthumanism claims that critical posthumanism must be enacted in practice, and stages itself as an example of that process, through a hybrid theoretical and practice-based becoming. It argues that posthumanism is necessarily a vibrant, lively process being undergone, and as such, that it cannot be narrativized or referred to discursively without collapsing that process back into a static, universalised delineation once again. It must remain in practice, and as such, this thesis enacts the process of which it itself is a principle paradigm.After establishing the critical field termed ‘posthumanism’ through analyses of associated discourses such as humanism and transhumanism, each of the four written chapters and hybrid conclusion/portfolio of work is enacted through a ‘figure’ which speaks to certain monstrous dilemmas posed by thinkers of the posthuman. These five figures are: The Phantom Zone, Crusoe’s Island, The Thing, The Collapse of The Hoard, and The 3D Printer (#Additivism). Each figure – echoing Donna Haraway – ‘resets the stage for possible pasts and futures’ by calling into question the fictional/theoretical ground upon which it is predicated. Considered together, the dissertation and conclusion/portfolio of work, position critical posthumanism as a hybrid ‘other’, my claim being that only through representing the human as and through an ongoing process (ontogenesis rather than ontology) can posthumanism re-conceptualise the ‘norms’ deeply embedded within the fields it confronts.The practice of critical posthumanism this thesis undertakes is inherently a political project, displacing and disrupting the power dynamics which are co-opted in the hierarchical structuring of individuals within ‘society’, of categories within ‘nature’, of differences which are universalised in the name of the ‘human’, as well as the ways in which theory delineates itself into rigid fields of study. By confounding articulations of the human in fiction, theory, science, media, and art, this practice in practice enacts its own ongoing, ontogenetic becoming; the continual changing of itself, necessary to avoid a collapse into new absolutes and universals.

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Thu, 08 Aug 2019 05:56:23 -0700 http://research.gold.ac.uk/26601/
<![CDATA[Fungal Hallucinogens Send Cicadas on Sex Binges After Their Genitals Fall Off]]> https://www.sciencealert.com/fungal-hallucinogens-cause-cicadas-to-go-on-sex-binges-after-they-lose-their-genitals

In latest gruesome nature news, scientists have discovered new details on a fungus that compels its cicada hosts to mate long after their genitals have gone and their bodies have turned into what one researcher colourfully describes as 'flying salt shakers of death'.

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Tue, 02 Jul 2019 14:44:41 -0700 https://www.sciencealert.com/fungal-hallucinogens-cause-cicadas-to-go-on-sex-binges-after-they-lose-their-genitals
<![CDATA[Walk&Talk; - Arts Festival 2018]]> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90GCsukwHKI

(pt) Walk&Talk fala da ilha, fala de um lugar e de um momento que questiona noções de centro e de periferia, amplia as geografias do mundo e as histórias da arte. Uma vídeo-conversa entre pessoas que multiplicam as formas de habitar a ilha, sobre a nossa natureza, o poder de criar e os ritmos do tempo.

(en) Walk&Talk speaks from the island, speaks from a place and moment that questions notions of centre and of periphery, expands the geographies of the world and the histories of the art. A video-conversation between people who multiply the ways of inhabiting the island, about our nature, the power of creating and the pace of time.

/ Realização/Direction - Bernardo Bordalo, Rui Nó | Montagem/Editing - Bernardo Bordalo | Cinematografia/Cinematography - Cláudio Oliveira | Banda Sonora/Sound Track - Cláudio Oliveira | Sonoplastia/Sound Design - Claudio Oliveira | Tradução/Translation Luisa Cativo

Comissariado/Commissioned by Walk&Talk - Arts Festival Direção Artística/Artistic Direction Jesse James & Sofia Carolina Botelho

/ Ana Trincão - André Uerba - Alessandro Bartolazzo - António Torres – Casabranca - Camposaz - Caroline David - Cristóvão Ferreira - Conan Osiris - Dani Admiss - Daniel Rourke + Luiza Prado - Diana Vidrascu – Diogo Alvim - Elliot Sheedy - Filipe Pereira - Gustavo Ciríaco com/with Ana Trincão, Rodrigo Andreolli, Sara Zita Correia & Tiago Barbosa - Gonçalo Preto - Henrique Ferreira - João Mourão & Luis Silva - Kurt Woerpel - Lígia Soares - Lúcia Moniz - Luísa Salvador - Manuela Marques - Margarida Andrade - Maurícia Barreira Neves - Maya Saravia - Mezzo Atelier, Joana Oliveira & Giacomo Mezzadri - Michel Charlot - Miguel Flor - Miguel Damião - Mónica de Miranda - Nora Al-Badri + Nikolai Nelles - Pauliana Valente Pimentel - Pedro Penim com/with Bernardo de Lacerda & Frederico Serpa - Polliana Dalla Barba - Sascha Pohflepp & Chris Woebken - Shift Register, Jamie Allen & Martin Howse - Rodrigo Andreolli - Sara Zita Correia - Sofia Caetano - Teresa Silva - Tiago Barbosa - Tim Lahan - ThugUnicorn – UVA - Voyager - We Came from Space

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Thu, 28 Mar 2019 09:40:15 -0700 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90GCsukwHKI
<![CDATA[Manifesto on algorithmic humanitarianism | openDemocracy]]> https://www.opendemocracy.net/dan-mcquillan/manifesto-on-algorithmic-humanitarianism

The nature of machine learning operations mean they will actually deepen some humanitarian problematics and introduce new ones of their own. This banality of machine learning is also its power. Small grocery shop in The Jungle refugee camp in Calais, 2015. Debets/Press Association.

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Tue, 09 Oct 2018 09:50:40 -0700 https://www.opendemocracy.net/dan-mcquillan/manifesto-on-algorithmic-humanitarianism
<![CDATA[Opinion | It’s Not Technology That’s Disrupting Our Jobs - The New York Times]]> https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/18/opinion/technology/technology-gig-economy.html

The insecure nature of work is a result of decisions by corporations and policymakers. Mr. Hyman is an economic historian.

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Tue, 28 Aug 2018 05:33:40 -0700 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/18/opinion/technology/technology-gig-economy.html
<![CDATA[Naked]]> https://vimeo.com/12251595

A surgeon and his assistant wheel a bed with a panda on it into the operating room of a large hospital in Sweden. This is not a flesh-and-blood panda, however, but a mechanical toy. With great concentration, the surgeon starts to operate, painstakingly removing layer after layer of the furry covering followed by the soft filling. While the surgeon searches for the plastic core in the operational innards, the panda doggedly resists its deconstruction. The noises it emits sound more animal than machine-made, reinforcing the absurd nature of this clash between a living being and a machine. The film's calm, serious, observational style invites us to consider a number of current cultural issues. What is the difference between man and the technology he designs? To what extent are our flesh-and-blood bodies becoming technological bodies? And if, at some point in the future, we all have a technological body, will the operations of the future be like this one, on this pitiably whimpering panda? These are questions artist Tove Kjellmark also addresses in her other work./IDFACast: Tove KjellmarkTags: naked, skinned, art, sculture, toy, toys, panda, operation, another nature and idfa

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Sun, 19 Aug 2018 10:22:02 -0700 https://vimeo.com/12251595
<![CDATA[Crispr Can Speed Up Nature—and Change How We Grow Food | WIRED]]> https://www.wired.com/story/crispr-tomato-mutant-future-of-food/

Although he worked on a farm as a teenager and has a romantic attachment to the soil, ­Lippman isn’t a farmer. He’s a plant biologist at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York with an expertise in genetics and development. And these greenhouse plants aren’t ordinary tomatoes.

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Sat, 11 Aug 2018 03:42:16 -0700 https://www.wired.com/story/crispr-tomato-mutant-future-of-food/
<![CDATA[Capitalism Killed Our Climate Momentum, Not “Human Nature”]]> https://theintercept.com/2018/08/03/climate-change-new-york-times-magazine/

The novella-length piece represents the kind of media commitment that the climate crisis has long deserved but almost never received.

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Tue, 07 Aug 2018 18:22:30 -0700 https://theintercept.com/2018/08/03/climate-change-new-york-times-magazine/
<![CDATA[10. Salon Digital: #Additivism and the Art of Collective Survival - Daniel Rourke]]> https://vimeo.com/250198657

In diesem Video geht es um den Salon Digital 10. Dokumentation des 10. Salon Digital an der Hochschule für Künste Bremen am 29.11.2017. Mit Daniel Rourke. / filmische Dokumentation: Eva Klauss Rather than try and solve the problems we face as a planetary species - political and social problems which have been with us for millennia; or problems which come with new, and shiny names like ‘The Anthropocene’ - Daniel Rourke and Morehshin Allahyari, in their #'Additivism project, look to question the very notion of ‘the solution’: asking how the stories our problem come wrapped in are products of particular privileges, identities, and points of view. In this talk Daniel Rourke introduces The 3D Additivist Manifesto and Cookbook, showcasing some of the 'post-solution' projects it contains, and asking difficult questions of how to act once there are no solutions left. What is #Additivism? In March 2015 Allahyari & Rourke released The 3D Additivist Manifesto, a call to push the 3D printer and other creative technologies, to their absolute limits and beyond into the realm of the speculative, the provocative and the weird. The 3D Additivist Cookbook is composed of responses to that call, an extensive catalog of digital forms, material actions, and post-humanist methodologies and impressions. - The program for Digital Media at the University of the Arts Bremen launched a regular series of salon-style gatherings titled “Spectacle: Reenactments in the Arts, Design, Science and Technology.” The events have an open format and provide a forum for experiments, presentations and performances from a range of different fields, but with a common focus on old and new media, as well as technologies. The salon thereby enables a practice of reenactment as a way to make things past and hidden visible, present and also questionable. Contemporary new technologies and media seem to cover knowledge with complex layers of materials, code/sign systems and history/organization. Reenacting can translate obscured knowledge, ideas and theories into bodies and actions. At the heart of this conceptual approach is a desire to turn past events into present experiences—although the very nature of the past prohibits such an endeavor. The salon pursues the primary goal of opening closed systems and constructions (black boxes). Global power structures, as well as complex processes in development and production—leading to hermetic constructs—have made it even harder to understand science, economy and contemporary media, as well as new technologies. Recipients therefore tend to mostly grasp only their superficial level. The spectacle is a way to condense actions and processes. Reenactment, on the other hand, builds on repetition and history. But the spectacle is a moment in the here and now where everything flows together and culminates. Organised by: Andrea Sick, Ralf Baecker und Dennis Paul salon-digital.comCast: Digitale Medien KuD der HfK

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