A 15th century tale, originating from Alfonso de Madrigal, a prolific 15th century commentator who enjoyed creating stories with moving statues in the Middle Ages, wants Albertus Magnus, a real person, a Dominican monk, theologian and philosopher who lived two centuries before Alfonso, in the 13th century, to have managed to compose a whole man out of metal.
algorithms and totalitarianism
Historical fascism is generally (and often abstractly) known, although it is condensed into personalities (e.g. Hitler) facilitating misunderstanding and confusion: obviously “national socialism” either in its German version or in …
the Soviet InterNyet
The following article is a translation of a text by American professor Benjamin Peters. Together with Slava Gerovich (also based in the U.S., but of Russian origin), he is one …
“A Cyborg Manifesto”: thirty years later
This text was first published in Cyborg no 2, in February 2015. More than 10 years ago. Why are we republishing it now? Because it still holds up. And because …
Organized stupefaction?
It is a position that we have publicly supported (i.e., in writing) on various occasions, despite it being particularly unpopular: every process of extensive mechanization of human capabilities quickly leads …
Realities from production line and experiences by order
As the Western perception has been shaped at this moment, any reference to artificial intelligence systems almost automatically refers to dialogical tools such as ChatGPT. These specific tools are categorized …
Science; Of whom;
When in 1942, during the Second World War, a good portion of the Western physicists’ elite gathered in the US to transform their until-then theoretical knowledge and ideas into something …
the organism is the product (synthetic biology and the creation of genetic tailoring)
In the 1990s, the Human Genome Project—concerned with the “decoding of human DNA”—promised to provide humanity with its “instruction manual”: a document that would forever clarify how the human organism …
mythematic stories about the destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Introduction by the translator: Green technologies in a shade of… phosphorescent Suddenly, nuclear technology seems to be going through a second youth. While until recently (and especially after the accident …
The gears of recording
Statistics, as the science of numbers, records, and classifications without further explanations and annoying causal chains, had been closely intertwined with genetics from an early stage. Eugenics (and therefore genetics, …
Statistics… as we say “state”
The phrase of Mark Twain (which he himself attributed to British Prime Minister Disraeli) is now widely known: “There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.” Despite …
neurolink: cross section to transhumanism…
The threat and the promise (a genealogy) …We need to achieve symbiosis with artificial intelligence, in order to achieve the democratization of intelligence. How will we start? By implanting a …