Luciana Parisi Instrumentality or the Origin of Techno-logic

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• 00:00:11

  Thank you very much. Thank you, Gene, for inviting me. Thank you, Christina. It's been a wonderful loss. Thank you for the students who came and stayed with me for three days. We had a very great discussion every day. So I have prepared something for you to follow me if you can't follow me otherwise. I know things…

• 00:16:04

  of rationality, through which colonialist patriarchy and capitalism had activated the teleological project. So I am going to refer to two models of critique of cybernetic computation that are, that have been kind of arguing. Arguing about, you know, how can we rethink technology away from power, or how do we think…

• 00:27:25

  So there is this kind of interesting transformation that help us also to think that if we were to say, well, machine can, the critique, the technology needs to be based on some kind of recuperation of social, cultural, you know, social cultural critique that whereby machine could never be able, are just some kind…

• 00:40:09

  Because for me, algorithmic information theory is what explains how cybernetics has stopped being just a mode of statistical calculation. But it's become also a mode of learning and thinking. as incalculable. So since the 1940s, there's been experiments in cybernetics and computation that have concerned…

• 00:51:50

  non-cognitive or they are just carrying out tasks. The question instead is that instrumentality itself or the means, the action, the function, the carrying out task of a mean, already implies an elaboration of thinking from doing. Instrumentality therefore is not just what real life implies as an idea…

• 01:05:34

  automated surgery or automated vehicle results in the loss of life who should be to blame that's a very important question companies or yeah there is a there's a lot of argument about that because obviously the surgeon you know may say that the insurance company may say is the robot it has to be played there's a fault…

• 01:16:53

  So that kind of, I don't, I don't, I don't disagree at all. I think that computational planetary sovereignty exists. Absolutely. The question is, I do not want to relinquish, and I don't want to bundle the field of machine thinking to domination. I want to rethink of it in terms of its kind of perspective of moving…

• 01:25:51

  No, no, you're right. But, you know, the thing is that... The question today is getting either way. We don't know. We are in different times with this.