“Today the EU has AI regulation but not much AI to regulate, leaving European nations more dependent on U.S. & Chinese platforms. This is what backfiring looks like.” —Benjamin Bratton #europe #ai #airegulation

1/2 Elon Musk and Benjamin Bratton represent two sides of the same hollow game: using abstract philosophy and spectacle to legitimize techno-capitalist fantasies. Musk wraps brute ambition in shallow ideas; Bratton wraps shallow ideas in grand systems.

1/5 Benjamin Bratton doesn’t critique tech—he aestheticizes it. His abstract systems dress power in theory, making planetary computation look inevitable, even beautiful. It feels like philosophy, but acts like branding.

1/6 I mean—it’s despicable that public money is being used to fund people like Benjamin Bratton. Academic grift disguised as planetary salvation. We deserve better than glossy PowerPoint cosmology sold as critical theory.

"How Philosophy Failed the Pandemic, Or: When Did Agamben Become Alex Jones?" by Benjamin Bratton (2021) "The affirmation or negation of what the human is also plays out through what humans can be."

As Long Now’s Artist-in-Residence, Michel will create a body of work inspired by our mission, expanding his exploration of time through portraiture, documentary photography, and large-scale visual projects.

Bratton on the Artificiality podcast recently argues that LLMs represent a kind of redistribution of expertise, a transfer of intellectual capital from the global north to the global south- (an inversion of the standard extraction critique) artificialityinstitute.org/benjamin-bra... it’s ya boi

Our artificial baby language learner (fiwGAN) and its latent space exhibited @berggruen.org in collaboration with Antikythera @metahaven.bsky.social @ninabegus.bsky.social Benjamin Bratton

Architecture is the solidification of social form in the built environment. It is the structure of collective organization… Language is the architecture within which we refer to systems. Benjamin H. Bratton Pornotopias [ @litterariaprag.bsky.social ] litteraria.ff.cuni.cz/books/pornot...

How We Discovered Our Own Extinction with Thomas Moynihan and Benjamin Bratton. For most of human history, the end of the world was a divine promise, inevitable and liberating for the holy alone. But the invention of extinction changed that. Futurology Pod now available on all podcast platforms.

In this episode, philosopher Thomas Moynihan joins Benjamin Bratton to trace the history of a shift in thinking: that the future isn’t guaranteed. Futurology Pod now available on all podcast platforms. #berggrueninstitute #futurologypod

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I hope you can join my Long Now talk with Benjamin Bratton on September 16. We'll explore what intelligence really means in the age of AI, live from San Francisco and streaming online: bit.ly/3HFVOEI

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Benjamin Bratton sintetiza su perspectiva sistémica sobre los cambios sociales y tecnológicos en curso, publicada en The Stack (“La Pila”). Entrevista de Facundo Carmona en @crisisrevista.bsky.social 🧐 revistacrisis.com.ar/notas/ni-apo...

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