With LLMs perpetrating a massive new enclosure, and creative labor struggling militantly, the times are ripe to debate intelligence, creativity, pattern recognition, and counting. If quantification is the fundamental episteme of our times, does it follow that all forms of digital reason are alike? How do computational mediascapes draw upon the infrastructural logics of long ago centuries? What is the difference between adding up and speculation? The recent Critical Inquiry essay “On Addressability, Or What Even Is Computation?” offers some important distinctions and historicizations that ramify for cultural theory.
Stave off fall just a little longer! Join us Tues 29 Aug, 4pm, at The Map Room (Blue Line: Western).
Contact us for pdfs and to propose back-to-school events; mark your calendars for a visit from special guest Christian Sorace, “Spherical Apartheid” 21 Sept!
Would-be visitors please get in touch; InterCcECT hosts lectures, mini seminars, works-in-progress, and dinner/overnights.
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