12 / December 7

Rewiring Social Structure / Parasites Lost

“I must Create a System, or be enslav’d by another Mans / I will not Reason and Compare; my business is to Create.”
— William Blake

Topics

Vogt’s Rituals of Reversal as a Means of Rewiring Social Structure; rewiring as always already happening — social media and social structure; algorithmic austerity v. Red Plenty and Cybersyn; very slow AIs to algorithmic value capture devices, a reprise; Dator and Candy’s possibility vs. probability space; Parasites Lost — David Roden, Posthuman Life and Subtractive-Catastrophic Xenophilia; demontology; Accelerando’s Lobster AIs, MIT’s Norman, Zero HP Lovecraft’s Minotaur, Cthulhu AI; Claire Colebrook’s In Praise of the Flat Earth and counterethics, Zoe v. Bios; ethical AI, game theory, and defection; Isabel Millar, The Psychoanalysis of Artificial Intelligence; a thorough rugging — exit scams, rugging, the Big Rugpull

Readings 4

Rituals of Reversal as a Means of Rewiring Social Structure Evon Z. Vogt Mimesis, Violence, and Facebook: Peter Thiel’s French Connection Geoff Shullenberger Subtractive-Catastrophic Xenophilia David Roden from The Psychoanalysis of Artificial Intelligence Isabel Millar

Additional Reading & Primary Documents 3

The Gig Economy Zero HP Lovecraft A Globe of One’s Own, In Praise of the Flat Earth Claire Colebrook On Social Sadism China Miéville

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