In 2011, a loose group of “grumpy futurists” wrote up an extensive list of “Alternatives to the Singularity” in a collaborative Google Document. “The Singularity”, in popular culture and para-religious belief, refers to the point where machine intelligence leaves humans behind. Against the techno-utopian …

Het ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken en Koninkrijksrelaties heeft het IBP (Interbestuurlijk Programma), namens de regering, opgezet om een verbetering door te voeren in de uitvoering van de overheid. Het ministerie wil een instantie zijn waarop burgers kunnen vertrouwen en maakt zich sterk voor maatschappelijke …

Human prejudices reemerge in algorithmic cultures allegedly devised to be blind to them. Algorithmic identity politics reinstate old forms of social segregation—in a digital world, identity politics is pattern discrimination. It is by recognizing patterns in input data that artificial intelligence algorithms …

Research and publishing have always been closely related but are currently undergoing changes. Informed by technological and cultural developments, their practices and definitions are being debated. For new forms of interdisciplinary and artistic research, there is a corresponding need for new forms …

How do “human” prejudices reemerge in algorithmic cultures allegedly devised to be blind to them? To answer this question, this book investigates a fundamental axiom in computer science: pattern discrimination. By imposing identity on input data, in order to filter—that is, to discriminate—signals from …

Panel discussion on big data, algorithmic profiling, filter bubbles and political populism with Florian Cramer, Daniel Irrgang, Matteo Pasquinelli, Vesselin Popov, Peter Weibel and Siegried Zielinski. In: The political economy of data: on psychometrics, deep learning and net populism. Daniel Irrgang, …

The current Facebook farewell activism will likely end up being just as ineffective as the Post-Snowden crypto activism of the last few years and Linux install parties before that. Facebook-quitters will likely rejoin the network after a hiatus, if they haven’t stayed on Whatsapp and Instagram anyway. …

Een sterk groeiend aantal ouderen in Nederland moet steeds langer thuis blijven wonen. Ouderdom kan gepaard gaan met kwetsbaarheid. Vroegtijdige detectie hiervan is noodzakelijk om opname in een verpleeghuis te voorkomen. Om kwetsbaarheid vast te stellen is de Kwetsbaarheidsscan ontwikkeld. Dit digitale …

Zine for Pluriversale VII: Stealing from the West, Akademie der Künste der Welt, Cologne, Germany. This missalette was intended as a companion document to a conversation. It contains emails, texts, and images exchanged between Florian Cramer and Clara Lobregat Balaguer regarding the theme Stealing from …

Underground culture and non-institutional arts of Eastern Europe, North America and Western Europe of the 1970s/1980s often included experimentation with the dispensation of individual signatures and identities, in favor of pseudonyms and collective-anonymous identities. This included dispensation of …