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Luciana Parisi

Professor of Literature
Literature

Selected Publications


Negative optics in vision machines

Journal Article AI and Society · December 1, 2021 Can machine vision step beyond the ocularcentric metaphysics of the Western gaze and the reproduction of racial capital? Paul Virilio argued that machine vision requires no perceptual response or recognition of the world. The computer’s series of coded imp ... Full text Cite

Artificial Critique

Chapter · 2021 In this volume the editors gather diverse perspectives on one agreed-upon condition: that the computational power of today?s world has fundamentally transformed all aspects of this very world. ... Cite

Instrumentality

Chapter · 2021 This pathbreaking work offers an interdisciplinary perspective on big data, interrogating key terms. ... Cite

Data capitalism and the counter futures of ethics in artificial intelligence

Journal Article Communication and the Public · September 1, 2020 Ethics in data science and artificial intelligence have gained broader prominence in both scholarly and public discourse. Much of the scholarly engagements have often been based on perspectives of transparency, politics of representation, moral ethical nor ... Full text Cite

Data Capitalism, Sociogenic Prediction and Recursive Indeterminacies

Chapter · 2020 Data. capitalism,. sociogenic. prediction,. and. recursive. indeterminacies. Luciana. Parisi. and. Ezekiel. Dixon-Román. Introduction. The planetary conquest of data capitalism coincides with the impossibility of thinking beyond the horizon of ... ... Cite

The Intelligence of Computational Design

Chapter · 2020 This book gathers 14 architects, designers, performing artists, film makers, media theorists, philosophers, mathematicians and programmers. ... Cite

Media Ontology and Transcendental Instrumentality

Journal Article Theory, Culture & Society · November 2019 This article takes inspiration from Kittler’s claim that philosophy has neglected the means used for its production. Kittler’s argument for media ontology will be compared to the post-Kantian project of re-inventing philosophy through the medium o ... Full text Cite

The alien subject of AI

Journal Article Subjectivity · March 2019 Full text Cite

Critical Computation: Digital Automata and General Artificial Thinking

Journal Article Theory, Culture & Society · March 2019 As machines have become increasingly smart and have entangled human thinking with artificial intelligences, it seems no longer possible to distinguish among levels of decision-making that occur in the newly formed space between critical reasoning, ... Full text Cite

Xeno-Patterning: Predictive Intuition and Automated Imagination

Journal Article Angelaki · February 2019 If the image of the future has already been colonized by the inevitability of a planetary automation or by the Singularity, is it at all possible to re-introduce alienness in machine thinking beyond a master pattern that knows it all? As contemporary forms ... Full text Cite

After Nature: The Dynamic Automation of Technical Objects

Chapter · March 28, 2017 Questioning the nature and limits of life in the natural sciences, the essays in this volume examine the boundaries and significance of the human and the humanities in the wake of various redefinitions of what counts as life. ... Cite

Computational Logic and Ecological Rationality

Chapter · 2017 Hence this ecology of ecologies initiates and demands that we go beyond the specificity of any particular ecology: a general thinking of ecology which may also constitute an ecological transformation of thought itself is required. ... Cite

Automated Thinking and the Limits of Reason

Journal Article Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies · October 2016 This article reflects on how the ingression of computation in culture has not only transformed media into algorithmic devices but has also, more importantly, led to the automation of the most precious faculty of the human, namely, reasoning. This ... Full text Cite

Do Algorithms Have Fun? On Completion, Indeterminacy and Autonomy in Computation

Chapter · 2014 Fun and Software offers the untold story of fun as constitutive of the culture and aesthetics of computing. Fun in computing is a mode of thinking, making and experiencing. ... Cite

Digital Automation and Affect

Chapter · 2014 "Timing of Affect" assembles contributions from different disciplines from philosophy to film, music, sound, media and art, through to technology, computation and neurology to explore the following temporal aspects of the time of ... ... Cite

Contagious Architecture Computation, Aesthetics, and Space

Book · 2013 In Contagious Architecture, Luciana Parisi offers a philosophical inquiry into the status of the algorithm in architectural and interaction design. ... Cite

Digital Design and Topological Control

Journal Article Theory, Culture & Society · July 2012 At the turn of the 21st century, topology, the mathematical study of spatial properties that remain the same under the continuous deformation of objects, has come to invest all fields of aesthetics and culture. In particular, the algebraic topolog ... Full text Cite

Topologies of Culture

Journal Article Theory, Culture and Society: explorations in critical social science · 2012 Cite

Speculation

Chapter · 2012 Cite

Negative optics in vision machines

Journal Article AI and Society · December 1, 2021 Can machine vision step beyond the ocularcentric metaphysics of the Western gaze and the reproduction of racial capital? Paul Virilio argued that machine vision requires no perceptual response or recognition of the world. The computer’s series of coded imp ... Full text Cite

Artificial Critique

Chapter · 2021 In this volume the editors gather diverse perspectives on one agreed-upon condition: that the computational power of today?s world has fundamentally transformed all aspects of this very world. ... Cite

Instrumentality

Chapter · 2021 This pathbreaking work offers an interdisciplinary perspective on big data, interrogating key terms. ... Cite

Data capitalism and the counter futures of ethics in artificial intelligence

Journal Article Communication and the Public · September 1, 2020 Ethics in data science and artificial intelligence have gained broader prominence in both scholarly and public discourse. Much of the scholarly engagements have often been based on perspectives of transparency, politics of representation, moral ethical nor ... Full text Cite

Data Capitalism, Sociogenic Prediction and Recursive Indeterminacies

Chapter · 2020 Data. capitalism,. sociogenic. prediction,. and. recursive. indeterminacies. Luciana. Parisi. and. Ezekiel. Dixon-Román. Introduction. The planetary conquest of data capitalism coincides with the impossibility of thinking beyond the horizon of ... ... Cite

The Intelligence of Computational Design

Chapter · 2020 This book gathers 14 architects, designers, performing artists, film makers, media theorists, philosophers, mathematicians and programmers. ... Cite

Media Ontology and Transcendental Instrumentality

Journal Article Theory, Culture & Society · November 2019 This article takes inspiration from Kittler’s claim that philosophy has neglected the means used for its production. Kittler’s argument for media ontology will be compared to the post-Kantian project of re-inventing philosophy through the medium o ... Full text Cite

The alien subject of AI

Journal Article Subjectivity · March 2019 Full text Cite

Critical Computation: Digital Automata and General Artificial Thinking

Journal Article Theory, Culture & Society · March 2019 As machines have become increasingly smart and have entangled human thinking with artificial intelligences, it seems no longer possible to distinguish among levels of decision-making that occur in the newly formed space between critical reasoning, ... Full text Cite

Xeno-Patterning: Predictive Intuition and Automated Imagination

Journal Article Angelaki · February 2019 If the image of the future has already been colonized by the inevitability of a planetary automation or by the Singularity, is it at all possible to re-introduce alienness in machine thinking beyond a master pattern that knows it all? As contemporary forms ... Full text Cite

After Nature: The Dynamic Automation of Technical Objects

Chapter · March 28, 2017 Questioning the nature and limits of life in the natural sciences, the essays in this volume examine the boundaries and significance of the human and the humanities in the wake of various redefinitions of what counts as life. ... Cite

Computational Logic and Ecological Rationality

Chapter · 2017 Hence this ecology of ecologies initiates and demands that we go beyond the specificity of any particular ecology: a general thinking of ecology which may also constitute an ecological transformation of thought itself is required. ... Cite

Automated Thinking and the Limits of Reason

Journal Article Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies · October 2016 This article reflects on how the ingression of computation in culture has not only transformed media into algorithmic devices but has also, more importantly, led to the automation of the most precious faculty of the human, namely, reasoning. This ... Full text Cite

Do Algorithms Have Fun? On Completion, Indeterminacy and Autonomy in Computation

Chapter · 2014 Fun and Software offers the untold story of fun as constitutive of the culture and aesthetics of computing. Fun in computing is a mode of thinking, making and experiencing. ... Cite

Digital Automation and Affect

Chapter · 2014 "Timing of Affect" assembles contributions from different disciplines from philosophy to film, music, sound, media and art, through to technology, computation and neurology to explore the following temporal aspects of the time of ... ... Cite

Contagious Architecture Computation, Aesthetics, and Space

Book · 2013 In Contagious Architecture, Luciana Parisi offers a philosophical inquiry into the status of the algorithm in architectural and interaction design. ... Cite

Digital Design and Topological Control

Journal Article Theory, Culture & Society · July 2012 At the turn of the 21st century, topology, the mathematical study of spatial properties that remain the same under the continuous deformation of objects, has come to invest all fields of aesthetics and culture. In particular, the algebraic topolog ... Full text Cite

Topologies of Culture

Journal Article Theory, Culture and Society: explorations in critical social science · 2012 Cite

Speculation

Chapter · 2012 Cite

Nanoarchitectures: The Synthetic Design of Extensions and Thoughts

Chapter · 2012 The volume provides a fascinating dialogue that cuts across disciplines, media platforms and geographic and linguistic boundaries. ... Cite

Soft Thought (in Architecture and Choreography)

Journal Article Computational Culture: A Journal of Software Studies · November 2011 Link to item Cite

Mnemonic Control

Chapter · 2011 Together, the essays offer ways to conceptualize biopolitics as the ground for today’s reformulation of governance. Contributors. ... Cite

EVENT AND EVOLUTION

Journal Article The Southern Journal of Philosophy · September 2010 abstractWhy have theories of evolution become now (and again) a matter of concern for critically rethinking sex and sexual difference? Why after years of deconstructing the ontologies of sex rooted in bio ... Full text Cite

Machines of Memory

Chapter · 2010 These essays survey the histories, the theories and the fault lines that compose the field of memory research. ... Cite

What Can Biotechnology Do?: Process-Events vs the Bio-Logic of Life

Journal Article Theory, Culture & Society · July 2009 Full text Cite

Symbiotic Architecture

Journal Article Theory, Culture & Society · March 2009 This article tackles an old, classical problem, which is acquiring a new epochal relevance with the techno-aesthetic processing of form and substance, expression and content. The field of digital architecture is embarked in the ancient controversy ... Full text Cite

AN ARCHIGENESIS OF EXPERIENCE

Journal Article Australian Feminist Studies · March 2009 Full text Cite

Extensive Continuum: Towards a Rhythmic Anarchitecture

Journal Article Inflexions : a Journal for Research Creation · 2009 Link to item Cite

The Adventures of A Sex

Chapter · 2009 The field of 'queer theory' has long been dominated by the work of Judith Butler and the focus on performativity. This collection of work proposes a major paradigm shift in debates on sexuality. ... Cite

Technoecologies of Sensation

Chapter · 2009 much of the mainstream of ecological/ecocritical approaches." --Book Jacket. ... Cite

The Nanoengineering of Desire

Chapter · 2008 The nanoengineering of desire demands the biotic qualities of sexuality to face new onto-evolutionary implications: the atomic redesigning of matter intervenes in assemblages of desire – mental, affective, social, technical, ethical, cultural ... ... Cite

Biotech

Journal Article Theory, Culture & Society · November 2007 Full text Cite

The Affect of Nanoterror

Journal Article Culture Machine · 2005 Cite

For a Schizogenesis of Sexual Difference

Journal Article Identities: Journal for Politics, Gender and Culture · January 1, 2004 Author(s): Luciana Parisi | Лучијана Паризи Title (English): For a Schizogenesis of Sexual Difference Title (Macedonian): За една шизогенеза на половата разлика Translated by (English to Macedonian): Goran Stoev | Горан Стоев&#x0D ... Full text Cite

Animals, Becoming

Chapter · 1999 Cite

Recursive Colonialism and Cosmo-Computation

Journal Article Social Text Online Cite