Computation has now been reconfigured by machine learning: those technical processes and operations that yoke together statistics and computer science to create artificial intelligence (AI) by furnishing vast datasets to learn tasks and predict outcomes. In DeepAesthetics, Anna Munster examines the range of more-than-human experiences this transformation has engendered and considers how those experiences can be qualitative as well as quantitative. Drawing on process philosophy, Mu...

The experience of networks as the immediate sensing of relations between humans and nonhuman technical elements in assemblages such as viral media and databases.Today almost every aspect of life for which data exists can be rendered as a network. Financial data, social networks, biological ecologies: all are visualized in links and nodes, lines connecting dots. A network visualization of a corporate infrastructure could look remarkably similar to that of a terroris...

In Materializing New Media, Anna Munster offers an alternative aesthetic genealogy for digital culture. Eschewing the prevailing Cartesian aesthetic that aligns the digital with the disembodied, the formless, and the placeless, Munster seeks to “materialize” digital culture by demonstrating that its aesthetics have reconfigured bodily experience and reconceived materiality. Her topics range from artistic experiments in body-computer interfaces to the impact that corporeal interaction and g...

Emma Gad var i sin samtid en kendt dramatiker og journalist. Men i dag er hendes navn uløseligt forbundet med "Takt og Tone", som er udkommet i utallige oplag siden 1918. I anledning af 100-året for bogens udgivelse har en række kendte danskere forholdt sig til Emma Gads gamle tekst og vurderet den ud fra en nutidig kontekst. Bogen er redigeret af historiker Pia Fris Laneth og tidl. kulturminister Jytte Hilden. Bidragyderne er: Pia Fris Laneth, Anna von Sperling, Anne Sophia Mygind Hermans...

Let’s be clear. We are all equal under the law. However, even in these more modern times that is not an absolute and still remains a distant ambition for many.In the days when Britain ruled the waves and bestrode the world as its policeman and plunderer in chief it also subjugated half of its own people to second class status. Women were chattel and property. There were some exceptions based on wealth and birthright but for the overwhelming majority your lot was to fall in with the...

Det här var Barack Obamas hemliga konkurrensfördel bakom vinsten i två presidentval. Företag som Google och Amazon använder det för att främja innovation, förbättra arbetsmiljön och sälja fler produkter. Och framgångsrika ledningsgrupper i C20-indexet har börjat se det som förstahandsvalet i sina strategier. Men vad är det vi pratar om? Svaret är beteendedesign. I den riktiga världen uppför vi oss inte som människorna vi bygger våra strategier för. Vi går till och med emot vår biologi och ...