Are different ways of developing machine learning possible? Maybe, but hardly under current political and economic conditions. Many critiquing AI remember the promises once attached to the open web – actively destroyed by the very same actors now pushing AI 6/

In its current form, what is called AI – again, not reducible machine learning technologies – is a product of platform capitalism, and its large-scale implementation is used to solidify dominant and increasingly monopolistic power and property relations. Of course, this has to be rejected 5/

What is called AI today is, in some ways, the combination of big data, machine learning and the ideology of scaling. In this respect, AI is not merely a technology (that would be machine learning), but an assemblage of cultural, economical, infrastructural and ideological dimensions 3/

Join us this summer semester for an exciting new series of lectures and workshops (both online and offline)! All events are open for anyone to join, no registration needed.

On Tuesday, November 18, our next Climate Futures Workshop takes place! The workshop presents a media ecological approach to climate sensitivities. With talks by Ayesha Omer and John Shiga. Moderation by Maren Haffke and Vera Tollmann. Find more info here: www.leuphana.de/en/research-...

Join us for our first event this winter term! In her talk on Oct 21, 2-4 pm, Lisa Moravec explores how (self-)critical professional artists, working within and for the theatre have critically responded to what she terms the 'AI-isation' of societal operations. www.leuphana.de/en/research-...

To all friends of the CDC: This semester, we are again organizing a series of lectures and colloquia (both online and offline) that may be of interest to you – we hope to see many of you there!

Episode 2 of our new podcast season "Internet Futures" is now live. Listen to “Back to the Future? The Vernacular Web” with @nathaliefridz.bsky.social and @anya-shchetvina.bsky.social to learn about the Yesterweb, nostalgia-tinged imagining of Internet futures and more. letscast.fm/sites/redico...

Join us for the next CDC Climate Futures Talk, "Common-Sensing: The Politics of In/Visibility in an Age of Planetary Crisis", with @delfrothe.bsky.social on July 1, 2 to 4 pm in C40.530 at #Leuphana and on Zoom (contact us for details)! More information at: www.leuphana.de/en/research-...

Sharing an opportunity to publish in our journal. Check out this call for papers led by @silvertje.bsky.social Rianne Riemens Donya Alinejad @juikei.bsky.social "Greening the Digital Society: Platforms, Sustainability & the Climate Crisis." Deadline: 23.05 journals.sagepub.com/page/pns/cal...

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Call for Papers: @kawezel.bsky.social and myself are organizing an early career workshop on 'International Political Sociologies of Planetary Crises' - please send us your abstracts and share widely!

A frustrated letter from the Library of Congress asking Norbert Weiner what section of a library his book is supposed to be in (1949).