Link to FoAM’s contribution (unchanged since 2018-11-13:
https://libarynth.org/alchorisma_reader
reader contribution by RYBN
Femke
Extracts are here: https://cloud.constantvzw.org/s/bkd3P9MTQcL3TJr
- ginger coons, Proposal for an additional logic gate (2014)
- The proposal to extend binary computational logic with a queer/trans*feminist flavor. The BUT-gate ('Stops the functioning of the circuit and raises a concern') was developed at GenderBlending, the first Constant worksession! and resurfaced in the reader for the Queering damages workshop in 2018.
- https://queeringdamage.hangar.org/images/5/55/Reader_Queering_Damage_2018.pdf
- Karen Barad, Diffracting Diffraction: Cutting Together-Apart (2014)
- p168-170
- "What is needed, Trinh emphasizes, is a disruption of the binary, a way to figure difference differently. If this is to be the case then difference cannot be positioned in opposition to sameness, not in any absolute sense, for this would reiterate the same problematic logics. As Trinh puts it: a non-binary conception of difference is ‘not opposed to sameness, nor synonymous with separateness’"
- https://www.academia.edu/30091118/Diffracting_Diffraction_Cutting_Together-Apart
- Rebekah Overdorf, Bogdan Kulynych, Ero Balsa, Carmela Troncoso, Seda Gürses, POTs: Protective Optimization Technologies (2018)
- p1-3
- The article is a situated response to the way optimization systems structurally disregard non-users, non-humans and environments that do not represent any potential socio-economic profit. It analyses the different ways/scales algorithmic procesess externalize risk and attention, and proposes 'Protective Optimisation Technologies', counter-algorithmic strategies that change the frame to include 'externalities' in order to expose these operations.
- https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.02711
- Donna J. Haraway, Thyrza Goodeve, Modest_Witness@Second_Millennium. FemaleMan_Meets_OncoMouse: Feminism and Technoscience (1988 + 2018)
- p23-26
- The 2018 edition of Modest_Witness@Second_Millennium. FemaleMan_Meets_OncoMouse, includes a conversation between Thyrza Goodeve and Donna Haraway:
- "Equations are incredibly hard and very important; they are gatherings together and propositions, and they’re abstractions, but you can mistake them for the world itself. If you mistake primary qualities, the only things you can know for certain, and secondary qualities are those things you must get rid of as proper to subjectivity and bias—color and touch are secondary—you will end up with a bad ontology. In Whitehead’s terms, you are essentially engaged in misplaced concreteness by mistaking the abstraction for the thing."
- https://library.memoryoftheworld.org/b/MFRkBl4qdZcdH0-Oi0AOCcfJf3ETbsrBbG8s3bZso8c6MDA6
- Parisi, Luciana, Computational logic and ecological rationality. General Ecology: The New Ecological Paradigm (2017)
- 'Computational nature'
- "The computational function of reason thus coincides with the discretization, selection, evaluation of increasingly random data (both external and internal to the computational environment itself), which importantly points to the generation of alien inferences advancing in the processing of data and algorithms (data, metadata, big data). Here a materialist approach to computation cannot be mainly concerned with the potentialities of computation already existing in nature, but needs to address the artificiality of an automated elaboration of data followed by an alien epistemological production." (this quote is actually from the paragraph fllowing the part I proposed, 'Speculative Reason'. I find this text super difficult to read, but it is very much connected to the proposals in other texts, so I would like to read it again in the context of Alchorisma)
- https://monoskop.org/media/text/hoerl_burton_eds_2017_general_ecology/#cha-2
reader txt propos van Peter Westenberg:
- Vic Gioscia - Frequency and Form, Radical Software 2, 1970
- "The dilemma-you can't have a revolution unless your head's together-but you can't get your head together unless you have a revolution-here arises. I'm suggesting that both tasks-solidarity and revolution-are facilitated by broadening the collective imagination with such questions as : What is that process of which industrialism, then automation, then cybernation are the acceleratively appearing moments? What are the unknown time rules such processes follow? Can we design other frequencies and forms?"
- http://www.radicalsoftware.org/volume1nr2/pdf/VOLUME1NR2_0009.pdf
- Martin Erwig - once upon a algorythm, how stories explain computation, MIT 2017
- "Hansel and Gretel solve the problem of surviving through a process of changing their position step-by-step and pebble-by-pebble from within the forest to their home."
- http://download1.libgen.io/ads.php?md5=5A4B1C31302B2B90C250B9617BED7B74
- p20 -> p26
- Vesna : LInks to more links:
* Death, grief, love
https://wiki.techinc.nl/Hackers_tribes#Accepting_Death
* Trauma, pain, healing
https://wiki.techinc.nl/Hackers_tribes#Emotional_Healing
* Internet, neoliberalism, ecology
-> grief for the extinct plants & animals, ecocide in the name of technological progress
https://wiki.techinc.nl/Hackers_tribes#Internet_and_Capitalism
https://wiki.techinc.nl/Hackers_tribes#Internet.2C_Electrical_Energy_Efficiency.2C_Pollution
* Feminism, emotional labor, feminist anarchism
https://wiki.techinc.nl/Ladies_Night#Feminism
https://wiki.techinc.nl/Hackers_tribes#Emotional_Labor
https://wiki.techinc.nl/Hackers_tribes#Anarchism
3 texts by Ursula K. LeGuin :
And one more about ;-)