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A social history of AI that finally reveals its roots in the spatial computation of industrial factories and the surveillance of collective behaviour. What is AI? A dominant view describes it as the quest ''to solve intelligence,'' a solution supposedly to be found in the secret logic of the mind or in the deep physiology of the brain, such as in its complex neural(...)
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A social history of AI that finally reveals its roots in the spatial computation of industrial factories and the surveillance of collective behaviour. What is AI? A dominant view describes it as the quest ''to solve intelligence,'' a solution supposedly to be found in the secret logic of the mind or in the deep physiology of the brain, such as in its complex neural(...)
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The eye of the master: A social history of artificial intelligence
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A social history of AI that finally reveals its roots in the spatial computation of industrial factories and the surveillance of collective behaviour. What is AI? A dominant view describes it as the quest ''to solve intelligence,'' a solution supposedly to be found in the secret logic of the mind or in the deep physiology of the brain, such as in its complex neural networks. ''The eye of the master'' argues, to the contrary, that the inner code of AI is shaped not by the imitation of biological intelligence, but the intelligence of labour and social relations, as it is found in Babbage's ''calculating engines'' of the industrial age as well as in the recent algorithms for image recognition and surveillance. The idea that AI may one day become autonomous (or ''sentient'', as someone thought of Google's LaMDA) is pure fantasy. Computer algorithms have always imitated the form of social relations and the organisation of labour in their own inner structure and their purpose remains blind automation. ''The eye of the master'' urges a new literacy on AI for scientists, journalists and new generations of activists, who should recognise that the ''mystery'' of AI is just the automation of labour at the highest degree, not intelligence per se.
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A social history of AI that finally reveals its roots in the spatial computation of industrial factories and the surveillance of collective behaviour. What is AI? A dominant view describes it as the quest ''to solve intelligence,'' a solution supposedly to be found in the secret logic of the mind or in the deep physiology of the brain, such as in its complex neural networks. ''The eye of the master'' argues, to the contrary, that the inner code of AI is shaped not by the imitation of biological intelligence, but the intelligence of labour and social relations, as it is found in Babbage's ''calculating engines'' of the industrial age as well as in the recent algorithms for image recognition and surveillance. The idea that AI may one day become autonomous (or ''sentient'', as someone thought of Google's LaMDA) is pure fantasy. Computer algorithms have always imitated the form of social relations and the organisation of labour in their own inner structure and their purpose remains blind automation. ''The eye of the master'' urges a new literacy on AI for scientists, journalists and new generations of activists, who should recognise that the ''mystery'' of AI is just the automation of labour at the highest degree, not intelligence per se.
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October 2023
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Archive, library and the digital
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1 volume : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm
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[S.l.] : ROUTLEDGE, 2022.
[S.l.] : ROUTLEDGE, 2022.
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CONTESTED TERRITORY OF ARCHITECTURAL THEORY.
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CONTESTED TERRITORY OF ARCHITECTURAL THEORY.
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[S.l.] : ROUTLEDGE, 2022.
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287 pages : Illustrations 18 cm.
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[Basel] : Christoph Merian Verlag, [2018]
[Basel] : Christoph Merian Verlag, [2018]
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Machines and robots / Dominik Landwehr (Hg./ed.) ; Migros-Kulturprozent.
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287 pages : Illustrations 18 cm.
Machines and robots / Dominik Landwehr (Hg./ed.) ; Migros-Kulturprozent.
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[Basel] : Christoph Merian Verlag, [2018]
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199 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 21 cm
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Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2023], ©2023
Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2023], ©2023
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Beyond digital : design and automation at the end of modernity / Mario Carpo.
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Beyond digital : design and automation at the end of modernity / Mario Carpo.
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Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2023], ©2023
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''Collective Intelligence'' is an innovative monograph that documents the last ten years of Polish-born conceptual artist Agnieszka Kurant’s interdisciplinary practice. It includes newly commissioned texts by renowned thinkers in science, philosophy, art, technology, anthropology, and economics. Kurant’s experimental work investigates collective and nonhuman(...)
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''Collective Intelligence'' is an innovative monograph that documents the last ten years of Polish-born conceptual artist Agnieszka Kurant’s interdisciplinary practice. It includes newly commissioned texts by renowned thinkers in science, philosophy, art, technology, anthropology, and economics. Kurant’s experimental work investigates collective and nonhuman(...)
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December 2025
December 2025
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Agnieszka Kurant: Collective intelligence
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''Collective Intelligence'' is an innovative monograph that documents the last ten years of Polish-born conceptual artist Agnieszka Kurant’s interdisciplinary practice. It includes newly commissioned texts by renowned thinkers in science, philosophy, art, technology, anthropology, and economics. Kurant’s experimental work investigates collective and nonhuman intelligences and their impact on transformations of the human, the future of labor and creativity, and the exploitations within digital capitalism. Questioning the ideology of individualism, Kurant proposes that we rethink human and more-than-human worlds from a perspective of plural subjectivity, and, through this fundamental shift in perspective, posits the possibility of alternative political imaginaries. Her work probes the replacement of individual authorship with collective intelligence—a phenomenon observed in slime molds, termite colonies, social movements, cities, the internet, and inside our brains. In her collaborative practice, the artist investigates artificial intelligence, emergence, cybernetics, automation, artificial life, mining industries, and energy circuits to explore our collective evolution and the shifting status of objects in relation to agency, value, circulation, and redistribution. Through crowdsourcing the production of her artworks to thousands of humans and nonhumans, Kurant creates unstable, hybrid forms that constantly evolve. Her works, oscillating between biological, digital, and geological, embody the crumbling distinctions between what is natural and artificial, real and synthetic, and life and nonlife.
Agnieszka Kurant: Collective intelligence
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''Collective Intelligence'' is an innovative monograph that documents the last ten years of Polish-born conceptual artist Agnieszka Kurant’s interdisciplinary practice. It includes newly commissioned texts by renowned thinkers in science, philosophy, art, technology, anthropology, and economics. Kurant’s experimental work investigates collective and nonhuman intelligences and their impact on transformations of the human, the future of labor and creativity, and the exploitations within digital capitalism. Questioning the ideology of individualism, Kurant proposes that we rethink human and more-than-human worlds from a perspective of plural subjectivity, and, through this fundamental shift in perspective, posits the possibility of alternative political imaginaries. Her work probes the replacement of individual authorship with collective intelligence—a phenomenon observed in slime molds, termite colonies, social movements, cities, the internet, and inside our brains. In her collaborative practice, the artist investigates artificial intelligence, emergence, cybernetics, automation, artificial life, mining industries, and energy circuits to explore our collective evolution and the shifting status of objects in relation to agency, value, circulation, and redistribution. Through crowdsourcing the production of her artworks to thousands of humans and nonhumans, Kurant creates unstable, hybrid forms that constantly evolve. Her works, oscillating between biological, digital, and geological, embody the crumbling distinctions between what is natural and artificial, real and synthetic, and life and nonlife.
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December 2025
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280 pages : illustrations (some color), maps, plans ; 26 cm
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Chichester, U.K. : Wiley, 2010.
Chichester, U.K. : Wiley, 2010.
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The architecture of emergence : the evolution of form in nature and civilisation / Michael Weinstock.
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280 pages : illustrations (some color), maps, plans ; 26 cm
The architecture of emergence : the evolution of form in nature and civilisation / Michael Weinstock.
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Chichester, U.K. : Wiley, 2010.
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Diaphanes 2020
Diaphanes 2020
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Library Stack 2024
Library Stack 2024
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Library Stack 2024
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93 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 19 cm
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Basel ; Boston : Birkhäuser, ©2001.
Basel ; Boston : Birkhäuser, ©2001.
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Advanced technologies : building in the computer age / Valerio Travi.
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93 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 19 cm
Advanced technologies : building in the computer age / Valerio Travi.
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Basel ; Boston : Birkhäuser, ©2001.
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