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Luciana Parisi

Professor of Literature
Literature

Scholarly Works - Book sections


Negative Aesthetics: AI and Non-Performance

Book section · January 1, 2023 As recent news has announced that AI is sentient, debates about the algorithmic performance of sounds, images, spaces, languages, return to open the question of: What counts as art in the aftermath of computational thinking? In other words, what is the rel ... Full text Cite

Artificial Critique

Book section · 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

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

Data Capitalism, Sociogenic Prediction and Recursive Indeterminacies

Book section · 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

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

After Nature: The Dynamic Automation of Technical Objects

Book section · 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

Book section · 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

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

Book section · 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

Book section · 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

Speculation

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Nanoarchitectures: The Synthetic Design of Extensions and Thoughts

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

Mnemonic Control

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

Machines of Memory

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

The Adventures of A Sex

Book section · 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

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

The Nanoengineering of Desire

Book section · 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

Animals, Becoming

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