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Critical Surveillance Art in the Age of Machine Vision and Algorithmic Governmentality: Three Case Studies
No full textThis article explores the political dimension of three surveillance artworks: Rafael Lozano-Hemmer’s Level of Confidence (2015), Heather Dewey-Hagborg’s Probably Chelsea (2017), and Trevor Paglen’s Machine Readable Hito (2017). These three artworks deploy new technologies of machine vision and algorithmic face recognition in order to develop a critical account of surveillance. This article’s main hypothesis is that the critical potential of the three selected artworks stems from their ability to render visible a twofold tension that defines contemporary social formations. First, these works nurture a certain ambiguity between two modes of understanding the relation between images and power (representation and performativity), highlighting the difficulties in conceptualising and redefining new critical strategies for artists today. Second, this article highlights the tension between individualisation and personalisation as two parallel tendencies of contemporary power. In this context, the modern notion of political emancipation, grounded mainly on the figure of the individual subject, has to be called into question. The three selected artworks point out the intersection between two logics of power (discipline and governmentality), drawing attention to the limits of the notion of emancipation for a critique of algorithmic face recognition technologies
Imagen y poder en la era de la visión artificial: una interpretación a partir de Gilbert Simondon y Gilles Deleuze
No full textThis article uses the notions of modulation and information in order to redefine the notion of image in the new context of artificial vision. Machine learning algorithms have enable an ever greater automation of visual perception where images are produced and consumed by machines. It seems that traditional categories to think the relationship image-power become obsolete in light of these new technologies. Thus, this article explores how Gilbert Simondon’s notions of modulation and information particularly as received in Gilles Deleuze’s work, offer an alternative approach to a post-representational concept of image and its relation to new power regimes (societies of control).El presente artículo utiliza las nociones de información y modulación en Gilbert Simondon y en Gilles Deleuze para pensar el concepto de imagen en el nuevo contexto de visión artificial. El desarrollo de algoritmos de aprendizaje maquínico ha posibilitado la automatización cada vez mayor de sistemas de percepción visual en los cuales las imágenes son producidas y consumidas por máquinas. En este contexto, pareciera ser que las categorías tradicionales para pensar la relación entre imagen y poder quedan obsoletas. Ante esto, este artículo explora en qué medida las nociones simondonianas de información y modulación, en particular a través de su recepción en la obra de Gilles Deleuze, ofrecen un punto de vista alternativo para pensar una noción no representacional y no hilemórfica de imagen, así como su vínculo con nuevas formas de poder (sociedades de control)
The Face Revisited: Using Deleuze and Guattari to Explore the Politics of Algorithmic Face Recognition
No full textThis article explores the political dimension of algorithmic face recognition through the prism of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari’s notion of faciality. It argues that algorithmic face recognition is a technology that expresses a key aspect of contemporary capitalism: the problematic position of the individual in light of new forms of algorithmic and statistical regimes of power. While there is a clear relation between modern disciplinary mechanisms of individualization and the face as a sign of individuality, in control societies this relation appears more as a contradiction. The article contends that Deleuze and Guattari’s concepts of machinic enslavement and social subjection offer a fruitful perspective from where to identify the power mechanisms behind the problematic position of the individual in the specific case of algorithmic face recognition
La Allagmática En Cuanto Disciplina Poshumanista: Nuevas Metodologías Para El Estudio De Las Imágenes En El Contexto De Las Máquinas De Visión Algorítmica
No full textDue to the rapid development of machine learning technologies, vision machines that automate visual perception
have been made possible. Trevor Paglen (2019) coins the
notion of “invisible images” in order to define those images that inhabit this new ecosystem of vision machines in
which images are produced by machines and for machines.
In this new context, the traditional concepts that have
defined our understanding of images become obsolete.
This demands new concepts to think visual phenomena
beyond the humanist domain of representation. This article
attempts a twofold task. First, it argues that Simondon’s
“allagmatic” method (2015) offers a fruitful ground for a
post-representational study of invisible images. Second,
it shows that if we adopt the “allagmatic” viewpoint, we
surpass the domain of the humanities in which the study
of images has been traditionally framed (Panofsky, 1987).
The final section suggests that this new approach is closer
to the critical post-humanities (Braidotti, 2018) than to the
digital humanities (Berry, 2012)
¿Sienten los algoritmos sus cuerpos eléctricos? Reflexiones sobre el trabajo vivo a partir de San Junipero
No full textEste texto trata sobre San Junipero, episodio cuarto de la tercera temporada de la serie televisiva Black Mirror (Netflix, 2016), abordando dos tensiones que subyacen a este aparente “paraíso de silicio”. Se trata, por un lado, de la pregunta acerca de las relaciones de clase que quedan inexploradas por el episodio y que exigen pensar cuál es el vínculo entre vida, capital y trabajo en este futuro idílico. Esto, a su vez, abre una segunda tensión a explorar, aquella entre cuerpo y consciencia que en las actuales filosofías transhumanistas es por lo general resuelta de manera simplista e ingenua, reificando una noción idealista de subjetividad. Ambas tensiones nos permitirán identificar algunas de las complejidades que definen la relación entre humanos, máquinas y capital, quizás no en un futuro por venir, sino como tendencias de nuestro modo de producción actual
The Attention Economy. Labour, Time and Power in Cognitive Capitalism
No full textThe attention economy is a notion that explains the growing value of human attention in societies characterised by post-industrial modes of production. In a world in which information and knowledge become central to the valorisation process of capital, human attention becomes a scarce and hence increasingly valuable commodity.
To what degree is the attention economy a specific form of capitalist production? How does the attention economy differ from the industrial mode of production in which Marx developed his critique of capitalism? How can Marx’s theory be used today despite the historical differences that separate industrial from post-industrial capitalism?
The Attention Economy argues that human attention is a new form of labour that can only be understood through a systematic reinterpretation of Marx. It argues that the attention economy belongs to a general shift in capitalism in which subjectivity itself becomes the territory of production and exploitation of value as well as the territory of the reproduction of capitalist power relations
A note about the perturbative dynamics of symmetric shells
No full textSeveral examples suggest that the central aspect determining a monotonic evolution for perturbed highly symmetric thin shells is the approximation adopted for their equations of state.Fil: Rubín de Celis, Emilio. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales. Departamento de Física; ArgentinaFil: Simeone, Claudio Mauricio. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Oficina de Coordinación Administrativa Ciudad Universitaria. Instituto de Física de Buenos Aires. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales. Instituto de Física de Buenos Aires; Argentina. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales. Departamento de Física; Argentin
Transindividual Affect: Gilbert Simondon’s Contribution to a Posthumanist Theory of Emotions
No full textReview of Claudio Celis Bueno 'The Attention Economy: Labour, Time and Power in Cognitive Capitalism'
No full textPostal de Claudio Vivas a Maruja Vieira, junio 23 de 1955
No full textPostal de Claudio Vivas a Maruja Vieira, felicitándola por el reconocimiento que le fue otorgado a la autora de poemasPostcard from Claudio Vivas to Maruja Vieira, congratulating her for the recognition given to the author of poems.Publicación, fondo Maruja Vieira, carpeta 1, folio
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