[csaa-forum] Transformations issue 34 released - Inhuman Algorithms

[Erika Kerruish]

Transformations announces the release of Issue 34

Inhuman Algorithms

http://www.transformationsjournal.org/
Algorithms are integral to a digital, networked, automated society. Thrown into the public spotlight by a certain high profile search engine, algorithms are increasingly recognised to exercise agency in practices such as governance, surveillance, online personalisation, medicine, design, high frequency trading, credit scoring and plagiarism. Computational machines make decisions about things, people, places and experiences, and humans learn to address algorithms.
Algorithms have inhuman capacities. They do not become distracted, tired, impatient or emotional. At the same time the algorithm's inhuman abilities can be understood as a desirable improvement on human skills. Algorithms are inhuman forces that bring social, political, material and cultural formations into being, generating and extinguishing possibilities. Their inhumanism transmutes ideas of the human and demands new (post)humanisms.
Papers:

Paul Atkinson & Richie Barker

Faster than the Speed of Thought: Virtual Assistants, Search and the Logic of Pre-emption



Francis Russell

Better Living Through Algorithms



Alex Anikina

Algorithmic Superstructuring: Aesthetic Regime of Algorithmic Governance



Andrew Goodman

The Secret Life of Algorithms: speculation on queered futures of neurodiverse analgorithmic feeling and consciousness
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