Скачать или смотреть Allen Feldman, Xenophobic Technicities: A Media Archeology

Bots, Bodies, Beasts – The art of being Humble
What does it mean for art making if the “human” is but one life form among many?

Was a conference-festival organised by the Gerrit Rietveld Academie that took place on April 7, 8, 9 and 10, 2016 at theatre De Brakke Grond in Amsterdam.

Studium Generale Rietveld Academie invited Maaike Lauwaert, If I Can’t Dance I Don’t Want To Be Part Of Your Revolution, Mohammad Salemy, and Anselm Franke to each inaugurate a discursive and performative program of one day.

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MOHAMMAD SALEMY: SYSTEMS OF A GREATER SUM
In Technics and Civilization (1929) Lewis Mumford identifies language & the cognitive system for making sense of empirical data as the two most significant technologies to emerge from the integration of humans’ physical and mental capabilities. Juxtaposing this insight against Bernard Stiegler’s concept of technogenesis which details the evolutionary overlap between biology and technology, Systems of a Greater Sum began from the assumption that humans have always already been posthuman and was about the expanded concept of technology towards the twin tasks of politicizing what is at stake in the ongoing cybernetic revolution while shedding light on the technological underpinnings of the larger social fields.

Matteo Pasquinelli, On the Technosphere of the Anthropocene: The Planetary Computation of Energy and Information into Cyberfossil Capital