Jason Adams: One of the central seminar offerings Im most looking forward to this season @The New Centre for Research & Practice - Matteo Pasquinellis brilliant-looking Capitalism as Computation & Cognition: From Babbage’s Factory to Google’s Algorithmic Governance. The seminar runs Tuesdays Feb 17th - March 10, 10:00 AM - 12:30 PM EST. Registration deadline is 24 hours prior to the start of the first seminar meeting: The aim of the seminar is twofold: on the one hand, it will provide a critical introduction to the notions of cognitive capitalism, immaterial labour and general intellect as developed by Autonomist Marxism, as well as those of abstraction and the automation of intellectual labour & artificial intelligence, as discussed in the accelerationist debates. On the other hand, the seminar will test these theories and hypotheses on the ground of contemporary case studies contextualized by the global networks of the Internet and social media, logistics and the internet of things, intelligence apparatuses, climate science infrastructures and the algorithmic stock exchange. Finally, each session of the seminar will be dedicated to a specific historical technological assemblage: 1) the role of information within the industrial factory; 2) the role of machinic knowledge in post-WWII cybernetic factories; 3) the role of ranking algorithms and procedures in the network society; 4) the role of algorithmic governmentality in the metadata society.
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