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SUMMARY:Antikythera: Philosophy of Planetary Computation in the Design Studio (Recent Projects and Provocations)
DESCRIPTION:As Stanisław Lem once put it\, some technologies are instrumental\, providing a means through which to change the world\, but others are ultimately existential in significance\, revealing aspects of reality previously unknowable and thus changing how intelligence knows the world and comprehends itself. Computation\, both discovered and invented\, is both instrumental and existential. \n  \nAntikythera is a think tank\, design studio and publishing platform (with MIT Press) that seeks to reorient planetary computation as a philosophical\, technological\, and geopolitical force\, by collaborating with scientists\, philosophers\, designers on a portfolio of research projects. In this talk\, Bratton\, will explore the theoretical provocations that underlie the program’s recent work and upcoming initiatives. \n  \nThe program is structured around several core research themes. Planetary computation refers to the emergence of computation as global infrastructure and “accidental megastructure\,” as described in Bratton’s The Stack: On Software and Sovereignty (MIT Press\, 2016); computational simulations as “epistemological technologies\,” multipolar computational geopolitics and what Bratton terms “hemispherical stacks;” synthetic intelligence and problems of anthropomorphism and AI alignment overfitting; and planetary sapience and how to locate the emergence of machine intelligence in the evolution of complex intelligence more broadly. \n  \nBratton will also present work in progress from new collaborations with Astrophysicist and Assembly Theorist Sara Walker on the philosophical figure of planetary intelligence in contrast with posthumanist neo-dualisms\, and with Google Research and Deep Mind on cognitive infrastructures\, human-AI interaction design\, generative multi-agent simulation\, physicalized AI in evolutionary robotics\, and structures of “fractal intelligence.” \n  \n*** \n  \nBenjamin Bratton’s work spans Philosophy\, Computer Science and Geopolitics. He is Professor of Philosophy of Technology and Speculative Design at the University of California\, San Diego. Bratton is also Director of Antikythera\, a think-tank on the speculative philosophy of computation at the Berggruen Institute. \n  \n*** \n  \nThis event is co-sponsored by the Center for Digital Humanities\, the Anthropology Department\, the Comparative Literature Department\, the Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program in the Humanities\, the Humanities Council and the Program in Italian Studies.
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SUMMARY:Leonardo Sciascia: The Man and the Writer
DESCRIPTION:Leonardo Sciascia remains best known outside Italy as novelist and writer of idiosyncratic detective stories which aim not so much to identify individual criminals as to dissect the society in which such crimes occur and to unveil the powerful forces which benefit by them. He was also produced non-fiction books in a genre of his own devising which can be known only as the inchiesta (enquiry)\, a probe to find the truth of some event in past or contemporary society. Underlying all his work is the moral quest for truth\, a fact which which makes him particularly relevant and indeed essential in a ‘post-truth’ society. Sicilian by birth and culture\, he used\, as he said\, ‘Sicily as a metaphor\,’ to allow him to extend his gaze into the morals\, or immorality\, of the use and misuse of power on an international scale. \n  \nJoseph Farrell is Professor Emeritus in Italian of the University of Strathclyde\, Glasgow. His recent books include: Sicily: A Cultural History; Dario Fo and Franca Rame – Theatre\, Politics\, Life; Robert Louis Stevenson in Samoa; Honour and the Sword – The Culture of Duelling. He has translated many books from Italian (Sciascia\, Consolo\, Dario Fo\, Valerio Varesi among others) as well as three film scripts by Giuseppe Tornatore. He was given the title Cavaliere della Repubblica Italiana for his services to the diffusion of Italian Culture.
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