Benjamin H Bratton: An Update on The Stack
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- Опубликовано: 7 сен 2024
- After the preliminary course “From Bauhaus to Silicon Valley” last year, this summer projekt bauhaus revives the Bauhaus’s workshop structure in order to explore the emancipatory potential of technology, to question the idea of progress, and to formulate a critique of the present through design.
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Benjamin H. Bratton: "The whole age of computer has made it where nobody knows exactly what's going on": An Update on The Stack
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Whither goes planetary-scale computation in this “new normal”? The rise of ethno-nationalist populism is a global phenomenon with global causes. Yet, in each case, locals either blame or congratulate themselves for their unique failures or accomplishments. From Manila to Milwaukee, we see the same voting patterns of urban, highly educated cosmopolitans versus rural, less educated monoculturalists wanting only to preserve their own national culture. Although globalization delinked sovereignty from geography in many capacities, we are still dealing with the vestiges of 18th-century phenomena at a time when city-states seem decisively detached from their national hosts. For those from “District 13” in our real-life Hunger Games, the city may be seen as a source of arbitrary power, and in this way, urbanization itself becomes a focus of populist backlash.
Is there a model that might clarify this noise? In this talk, writer Benjamin H. Bratton will provide a review of developments since the publication of his book The Stack: On Software and Sovereignty: planetary-scale computation beyond platform economics, the liquid boundaries of public data and private data, landfill mining and Earth system modeling, the futile complicity of utopian/dystopian narratives, urban culture after Peak Pitchfork, multipolar hemispherical stacks and their Potemkin ontologies, multi-scalar human exclusion zones, urban simulation models, synthetic voices, Kratt laws, fuzzy data subjects, and what counts, should be counted and be accountable as we slouch toward the post-Anthropocene.
Benjamin H. Bratton is sociological, media, and design theorist. He is Associate Professor of Visual Arts at the University of California, San Diego, and Director of the Center for Design & Geopolitics at the California Institute of Telecommunications and Information Technology. His work sits at the intersections of contemporary social and political theory, computational media & infrastructure, and architectural & urban design problems and methodologies. He is Program Director of the Strelka Institute of Media, Architecture and Design in Moscow. He is also a Professor of Digital Design at The European Graduate School in Switzerland and Visiting Faculty at SCI-Arc (The Southern California Institute of Architecture).
5:48 - Shallow Futurism
6:15 - Critique on HCD
6:30 - Mention of "complexity design" as a way forward
7:32 - Reactionary practice against 20th century modes
8:01 - "Humans are the medium not the message"
8:30 - "Planetary scale computation has both distorted and deformed traditional westphalian logics and geography and in doing so has created new territories in its own image"
8:45 - "Various genres of planetary scale computation... (referring to the black stack layers itself) ...can be seen not as a bunch of different species of computation spinning out on their own but actually as forming a coherent whole" // Is a mega structure different from an eco system?
10:30 - Proposes the stack apparatus creates new territories across different layers within current systems
11:19 - The state becomes the cloud and the cloud becomes the state
11:28 - The stack is developed in parallel to pre existing territories (ie: state, ect)
12:22 - Geographic/climatic identities decoupled from nation-state modes of identity
12:27 - who is he referencing in contrast to Sloterdjik?
12:53 - Trend is toward multipolarity moving out of Westphalian dialogue - Bubbles are just multiplicities of dialogues and not multilateral?
14:40 - (earth) Sovereign media trend, illuminating movement towards this conflation of cloud and other sovereign systems (governance)
16:43 - (earth) Sovereignty at the earth layer... weak institutions in terms of collective computation as human movements in achieving macro goals that extend beyond human timescale and comprehension
17:10 - (city) Redefining city space in new territorial networks that exist separately from national containers (reminded about comso vs rural)
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thx dude
The whole timing of the sun setting has made it where this talk is even more fascinating to watch
WUUUUT BENJAMIN!
biggest regret in awhile,,, was at brattons book launch at new school... was too scared to get him to sign my boook :( hopefully meet again in the future
happy to sign whenever you like