Episode_06 Sinofuturities & Automation

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• 00:00:28

  Welcome everyone. Thank you for your patience as we wait for everyone to arrive. This is the sixth event of the virtual symposium, Recursive Colonialism, Artificial Intelligence and Speculative Computation. This symposium is organized by the Critical Computation Bureau, a collective of researchers, artists and writers…

• 00:10:50

  I ask if whiteness can be deoptimized through studying the already broken machine required for its reproduction, and what forms the broken machine might take if it diverges from the ground of the recursive same. Provocation 2. Optimization and Whiteness Optimization and whiteness both automate recursive cycles…

• 00:21:27

  Relegated to observe Xinjiang from afar because of travel, ongoing travel restrictions, the question of distance, and with it, the differentials of scale, become less of a research obstacle and part of my question or method. Does sign of futurity imply the application of critical computational studies to Xinjiang? Or…

• 00:34:05

  This intensification of wireless media has been concurrent with China's remarkable rise. 1979 was also the year the country introduced its policies of reform and opening. Today, China is at the heart of a confluence of the world's most advanced and most advanced technologies. China's most advanced and most advanced…

• 00:42:28

  Saturated in the radiosphere, the 21st century city, the most artificial of environments, is interpenetrated with a force that is both cosmic and earthy, highly technological and wholly natural. The imperceptible world of the wireless wave functions doubly, as media theorist Mark Hansen has written, both as a mode…

• 01:01:04

  speak into the AAA um context of theıl can we look for an example of some kind of competition between you know �qa or uqa and the world and you know who is involved particularly for your work right so when you mentioned about contraction and expansion in these thinkers and how they produce materialization i can help…

• 01:14:43

  So Luciana asks, do you see that on the long wave of techno-capitalism, the conception of essence function offers a mode of challenging the Kantian model of knowledge? Yeah, so like I said, that certainly is Mo Zongshan's, well, I would say that that seems to me to be Mo Zongshan's project, right, is to what…

• 01:35:39

  Thank you again. Thank you to the Critical Computation Bureau and all the technical support staff who have helped us as well. Thank you so much. Thank you all so much. Thank you. I really enjoyed this. Take care. Stay in touch.