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- | ====== Towards Technosophy ====== | + | [[towards_technosophy: |
+ | ====== Towards Technosophy. In: Towards Technosophy (2022) | ||
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- | As Katerina mentioned in her introduction, | + | As Katerina mentioned in her introduction, |
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Digital data is infinitesimal, | Digital data is infinitesimal, | ||
- | In his video interview at Osnabrück with Miklós Peternak, Flusser suggested that “technical images”, | + | In his video interview at Osnabrück with Miklós Peternak((Vilém Flusser, // |
- | In his essay, Orders of Magnitude and Humanism, Flusser precisely identifies two realms of human activity which are availed by technical means, the infinitesimal and the astronomical. Conventional human epistemology and its institutions take place between the two extreme realms made accessible by technical instruments. Flusser warns that we must develop “new humanisms” for these alien realms of knowledge or risk being barbarized by them. This may appear ironic for the philosopher of “post-history”, | + | In his essay, Orders of Magnitude and Humanism, Flusser precisely identifies two realms of human activity which are availed by technical means, the infinitesimal and the astronomical((Vilém Flusser, ed. Andreas Ströhl, // |
One clue towards how to develop “new humanisms” for extreme scales of knowledge is to examine what is happening at the frontiers between “human scale” and the scales beyond direct human perception, what Flusser calls “grey zones”. “The new humanism would have to criticise the grey zones between the orders of magnitude, that is, the zones in which dwell artificial intelligence, | One clue towards how to develop “new humanisms” for extreme scales of knowledge is to examine what is happening at the frontiers between “human scale” and the scales beyond direct human perception, what Flusser calls “grey zones”. “The new humanism would have to criticise the grey zones between the orders of magnitude, that is, the zones in which dwell artificial intelligence, | ||
- | Borrowing the notion from Harun Farocki, I would call the knowledge of super- and infra-human scale phenomena “instrumental” knowledge. This means that, between the human thinker and the information from the alien scales they receive, there are instruments, | + | Borrowing the notion from Harun Farocki, who explored what he called “operational images”((Trevor Paglen, // |
In a mode of Historical New Materialism, | In a mode of Historical New Materialism, | ||
- | Joler and Crawford’s 2018 “Anatomy of AI” follows this intuition. In a massive, and massively detailed cartographical survey of the various processes and concepts at work in AI, this project is as pertinent in what it displays as in what it leaves out, since no single depiction can overcome the limitations of rational description. Nevertheless, | + | Joler and Crawford’s 2018 “Anatomy of AI” follows this intuition((Kate Crawford and Vladan Joler, |
+ | //Anatomy of an AI System//, 2018, [[https:// | ||
+ | seem to have been given to mankind as a providential means of bridging the gap between evolution and technology. The artist is able to program, or reprogram, the sensory life in a manner which gives us a navigational chart to | ||
+ | get out of the maelstrom created by our own ingenuity. The role of the artist in regard to man and the media is simply survival." | ||
The artworks and photo-philosophical experiments produced in our summer school were very much of a provisional and dialogical character. They emerged from the participants in their grappling with intuitions and information of various scales of experience through experiments with drones and microscopes, | The artworks and photo-philosophical experiments produced in our summer school were very much of a provisional and dialogical character. They emerged from the participants in their grappling with intuitions and information of various scales of experience through experiments with drones and microscopes, | ||
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Baruch Gottlieb Berlin 191122 | Baruch Gottlieb Berlin 191122 | ||
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