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Histories of Artificial Intelligence: A Genealogy of Power

 

Methods and Critical Issues Training: Algorithmic Cultures and the Environment

Wednesday 24 February 2021, 15:00–17:00 GMT

Co-facilitated by: Richard Staley (University of Cambridge). In addition to serving as co-PI of the HoAI Seminar, Richard Staley is PI of the five-year Making Climate History research project at the University of Cambridge.

Presentations by: Nathan Ensmenger (Indiana University) and Te Taka Keegan (University of Waikato)

Scholars from opposite sides of the earth discuss environmental perspectives on algorithmic cultures, including pragmatic issues related to materiality, corporate infrastructure, indigenous data sovereignty, and language preservation.

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Jonathan Arac (via bell hooks, 1997)

‘The process of remembering can be a practice which “transforms history from a judgement on the past in the name of a present truth to a “counter-memory” that combats our current modes of truth and justice, helping us to understand and change the present by placing it in a new relation to the past.”’

Bauman, Legislators and Interpreters (via Wynter, 2003)

'Definitions of the intellectual are many and diverse. They have, however, one trait in common, which makes them also different from all other definitions: they are all self-definitions. Indeed, their authors are the members of the same rare species they attempt to define...'

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