Anatomy of an AI System
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Anatomy of an AI System - The Amazon Echo as an anatomical map of human labor, data and planetary resources. By Kate Crawford and Vladan Joler (2018)

While this kind of thing isn’t quite ‘theory’, it definitely has some elements of theory within it, but it also uses very grandiose writing and mythological references. This one seems to be created as a museum exhibit with some connection to Mozilla.

Is there a name for this type of essay or a way I could find more like it? This sort of thing is very fun to read even if it’s not serious theory. The subject matter is more or less unimportant to me.

    • PM_ME_YOUR_FOUCAULTS [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.netBannedEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Have you ever found anything like it?

      Honestly, no. I love stuff that is completely sui generis like that.

      I feel like anyone trying to emulate it would fall flat

      I agree about emulation. It is also emerges out of the moment where Deleuze and Guattari-influenced Accelerationist theory was all the rage, and that was the context that I read it in. No idea what someone picking it up now would make of it