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This paper discusses the ways in which automation of industrial processes may expand rather than eliminate problems with the human operator. Some comm…| www.sciencedirect.com
This paper discusses the ways in which automation of industrial processes may expand rather than eliminate problems with the human operator. Some comm…| www.sciencedirect.com
Digital technologies have unsettled and reframed our intimate relations: the promise of proximity and instant connection gives way to an experience of distance and lag. What will the introduction of AI into every aspect of our personal lives mean for gender relations, bodily framings and the future of intimacy? This essay captures some of the complex amalgams of embodiment and speech, culture and biology, politics and poetry that demonstrate how the distance between human and machine expands...| www.berlinerfestspiele.de
The people who make algorithmic recommender systems want apparently incompatible things: they pride themselves on the scale at which their software works, but they also want to treat their materials and users with care. Care and scale are commonly understood as contradictory goals: to be careful is to work at small scale, while working at large scale requires abandoning the small concerns of care. Drawing together anthropological work on care and scale, this article analyzes how people who ma...| journal.culanth.org
Technology researcher and writer Maya Indira Ganesh’s piece speaks to feminist interpretations of cyborgs and bots while building a broader conversation on how machine learning reshapes the virtuality of desire and body image and offers “wiggle room” away from tech-bro culture.| 13th Gwangju Biennale
