10 / November 23

What’s the Deal with Birds?

“Birds are very strange. Some people are like “whoa they’re flying around and stuff, what’s the deal with that?” This sentiment is shared by people across socioeconomic backgrounds. Figuring out what the deal is with birds is of the utmost scientific importance.”
— Daniel T. Baldassarre, What’s the Deal with Birds?

Topics

Birds Aren’t Real — fighting predatory journals and internet hoaxing; hoaxing, Yippies to Yes Men to Birds Aren’t Real; Art as Abstract Machine — Deleuze and Guattari’s abstract machines, levelism in art

Readings 2

Introduction, Art as Abstract Machine: Ontology and Aesthetics in Deleuze and Guattari Stephen Zepke What’s the Deal with Birds? Daniel T. Baldassarre

Additional Reading & Primary Documents 1

The Method of Levels of Abstraction Luciano Floridi

Lab

TBD