Description
In this session, we will imagine slow, non-extractive, and anticolonial ways of engagement with fast-paced AI technologies. Could that slowness be more than a temporal quality and instead involve modes of being that highlight critical thinking, collective knowledge, and non-human-centred perspectives? How might one practice philosopher Yuk Hui’s writings on Gilbert Simondon, wherein acceleration is not technology’s endpoint but one moment within an intensity of difference? Does altering how one sees and reads technology have the power to change the tool?Looking into indigenous ontologies and thinkers like Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, Robin Wall Kimmerer, and Max Liboiron, we invite you to speculate on a creation myth for AI. Following a 15–20 minute introduction, we will do a short line-by-line reading of Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing’s The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins as a warm-up. Afterwards, we will engage in a collaborative myth-making exercise and reflect on the outcomes while sharing a nourishing lunch.
Please bring a story that has been important to your own creation, be it something that arrived later in life or that has been foundational within your ancestral path. This story will serve as motivation and inspiration to help you reimagine new narratives that could be applied to AI.
| Period | 21 May 2024 |
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| Event type | Workshop |
| Location | AmsterdamShow on map |