Event overview
A one-day postgraduate research seminar and roundtable discussion with Ray Brassier, Giuseppe Longo and Johanna Seibt, sponsored by The Doctoral Training Centre (Goldsmiths and Queen Mary University).
As the computational capacity to gather and analyse data accelerates, our culture, and indeed our future, is becoming increasingly bound to technologies of simulation, prediction and control.
Algorithmic outputs are used in various optimization frameworks, for example: risk assessment and management programs by public and private institutions; the profit maximisation instruments of HFT and derivatives trading; resource allocation solutions such as targeted advertising, predictive policing and friction-free logistics. Rather than merely rejecting these developments as the chronic symptoms of a culture of instrumental reason, this seminar proposes to identify the limits of the computational image of reason and the shortcomings of contemporary technologies of simulation. We aim to discuss the way in which reason intervenes in, and does not simply register or respond to, the description and prescription of behaviour. We aim to discuss the way in which reason intervenes in, and does not simply register or respond to, the description and prescription of behaviour.The seminar offers a renewed engagement with the question of sapient intelligence that moves beyond the simplistic reduction of neural processes to computational operations of symbol manipulation. Tackling these complex issues requires making distinctions between continuous and discrete processes, between theoretical models and the raw data of simulations, and between inference and blind reaction.
Please get in contact with l.parisi@gold.ac.uk / inigowilkins@gmail.com to register, stating your affiliation, as places are limited.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
|---|---|---|
| 2 Jun 2015 | 9:30am - 6:00pm |
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