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Upcoming Events: Henning Schmidgen | Wendy Chun

本通讯中文版请参见微信版本：https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/Wy2J0UgAMt35MPkQjLzYsQ (Chinese version on WeChat) UPCOMING EVENTS Research Seminar VI Henning Schmidgen: Machinic Normativity In dialogue with Yuk Hui Tuesday, 22 February 2022 8pm HKT / 1pm CET Facebook Event   This talk introduces the idea of machinic normativity by referring to the philosophical tradition of what Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari have called “technological vitalism.” I will show that this tradition includes not just Deleuze and Guattari, but also philosophers and physicians such as Georges Canguilhem and Kurt Goldstein. Crucial to this tradition is a biological perspective on “technique” in which it is understood as synonymous with the possibility of shaping one’s environment. Accordingly, our answer to the question concerning technology depends crucially on actualizing this perspective. Henning Schmidgen is Professor of Media Studies at the Bauhaus University in Weimar, Germany. He studied psychology, philosophy and linguistics in Berlin and Paris. Register BOOK TALK Book Conversation Discriminating Data by Wendy Hui Kyong Chun In dialogue with Yuk Hui  Fri 11 March 2022, 9am HKT Thu 10 March 2022, 5pm PST Facebook Event In Discriminating Data (2021, MIT Press), Chun reveals how polarization is a goal—not an error—within big data and machine learning. These methods, she argues, encode segregation, eugenics, and identity politics through their default assumptions and conditions. Correlation, which grounds big data's predictive potential, stems from twentieth-century eugenic attempts to “breed” a better future. Recommender systems foster angry clusters of sameness through homophily. Users are “trained” to become authentically predictable via a politics and technology of recognition. Machine learning and data analytics thus seek to disrupt the future by making disruption impossible. Wendy Hui Kyong Chun is Canada 150 Research Chair in New Media in the School of Communication, and Director of the Digital Democracies Institute at Simon Fraser University.  Register DIALOGUES ON PHILOSOPHY AND TECHNOLOGY About the series The Dialogues on Philosophy and Technology Research Seminar series is initiated by the Cosmotechnics/Critical AI research project, supported by the City University of Hong Kong in collaboration with the Research Network for Philosophy and Technology. The series, running from Fall/Spring 2021/22, features talks and workshops with leading scholars in the philosophy of technology and aims to address urgent questions on philosophy and technology today. Upcoming events include seminars with Andrew Feenberg (16 March), Luciana Parisi (20 April), and Carl Mitcham (25 May). Follow our Facebook Page to stay up-to-date with upcoming events. PAST EVENTS Research Seminar V Anna Longo: Predictive Technology vs. Prophetic Techne 19 Jan 2022 Watch on YouTube › Research Seminar IV Susanna Lindberg: Bernard Stiegler’s Love of Music 7 Dec 2021 Watch on YouTube › Research Seminar III Jean-Hugues Barthélémy: Towards Philosophical Relativity 24 Nov 2021 Watch on YouTube › Watch more videos on our YouTube channel. 本研討會系列的錄影已經可以在Bilibili上觀看：https://space.bilibili.com/514594965 (Videos also available on Bilibili) Copyright © 2022 Research Network for Philosophy and Technology, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you opted in via our website or events.  Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list.