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The class usually takes place on Mondays, from 15.00-16.30, on Zoom (with some exceptions during the parallel seminar Soft Architecture). In each session four students will give a presentation: two based on readings and the other two based on art and design projects. Each presentation is followed by a discussion and/or an in-class assignment. Each student has to write a final essay based on a topic chosen by the student in relation to a class assignment and his/her practical work in the seminar Soft Architecture or Data Visualization.
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Class 4 - 02.10. - Anthropocene
Readings:
to be finalized by july 11, 2023: Latour as described below or Charkrabarty on planetarity
a) Latour, Bruno (2018). "Das terrestrische Manifest". 21-25 & 35-68. Or alternative from new catalogue "Critical Zones!!
b) Internet and Energy (to be slimed down to max. 2 texts by july 11, 2023)
I) Gombiner, Joel (2011). "Carbon Footprinting the Internet“. In Consilience: "The Journal of Sustainable Development“. Vol. 5. 119-124.
II) Guardian Environment Network (2017). "‘Tsunami of data’ could consume one fifth of global electricity by 2025“. The Guardian, UK.
III) Cook, Gary (2017). "Clicking clean: Who is winning the race to build a green internet?". Greenpeace: Washington (D.C.), USA.
IV) Big data on a dead planet. The digital transition's neglected environmental impacts.
Note: I, II, III and IV are one package!
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presented by ?? (SA/D) and ?? (DA)
Class 7 - 23.10. - Essay preparation
Hand in (half a written page) and present (2-3min) your proposal for the final essay (interests, central question, potential, challenges)!
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Class 9 - 13.11. - Artificial Intelligence
Readings:
a) Russell, Stuart and Nerving Peter. Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach, 4th ed. Extract from Introduction and conclusion.
b) Tristan Harris and Aza Raskin of the Institute of Humane Technology: The AI dilemma. Youtube video of lecture in San Francisco on March 9th, 2023.
presented by ?? (Russel) ?? (Launchbury)
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a) Zuboff, Shoshana (2015) Big other: surveillance capitalism and the prospects of an information civilization.
b) Cadwalladr, Carole (2018-2020). I) Revealed: 50 million Facebook profiles harvested for Cambridge Analytica in major data breach. II) ‘I made Steve Bannon’s psychological warfare tool’: meet the data war whistleblower. III) Fresh Cambridge Analytica leak ‘shows global manipulation is out of control’. The Guardian, UK.
Note: I, II and III are one package! Do not feed the google (to be specified by july 11, 2023)
presented by ?? (Zuboff), ?? (Cadwalladr)
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