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''First Meeting:'' 3 November 2020, 13:30 (Link to online meeting will be sent to accepted participants by email.) | ''First Meeting:'' 3 November 2020, 13:30 (Link to online meeting will be sent to accepted participants by email.) | ||
''BISON Course ID:'' TBA<br/> | ''BISON Course ID:'' TBA<br/> | ||
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"The programmability of the earth and its environments as operation-spaces activates distinct ways of approaching the planet as a modifiable object." | "The programmability of the earth and its environments as operation-spaces activates distinct ways of approaching the planet as a modifiable object." | ||
<br>–Jennifer Gabrys, ''Program Earth'' | <br>–Jennifer Gabrys, ''Program Earth'' | ||
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In the upheaval of an uncertain world, it has become clear to many that the 'black box' technologies which underpin and mediate interactions between humans, digital infrastructure and physical environments have assumed an outsized role in dictating how we work, socialize, discourse, transact and govern. Although the development of these technologies has been decades in the making, the perceived disruption of the present and the accompanying sudden shift towards the blanket adoption and normalization of these opaque systems has introduced into the zeitgeist a general uneasiness with their topology, transparency and power dynamics. | In the upheaval of an uncertain world, it has become clear to many that the 'black box' technologies which underpin and mediate interactions between humans, digital infrastructure and physical environments have assumed an outsized role in dictating how we work, socialize, discourse, transact and govern. Although the development of these technologies has been decades in the making, the perceived disruption of the present and the accompanying sudden shift towards the blanket adoption and normalization of these opaque systems has introduced into the zeitgeist a general uneasiness with their topology, transparency and power dynamics. | ||