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Histories of Artificial Intelligence: A Genealogy of Power

 

Dr Richard Staley

Richard Staley is Reader in History and Philosophy of Science (Professor from 1 October), and co-Principal Investigator of the Histories of AI Mellon Sawyer Seminar. He pursues a long term project in the histories of physics, mechanics and anthropology, is author of Einstein’s Generation; The Origins of the Relativity Revolution (2008) and Principal Investigator of the Leverhulme Trust funded collaborative research project ‘Making Climate History’.

Richard Staley

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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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