[csaa-forum] Orit Halpern seminar - Financializing Intelligence: AI, Economics, and Reactionary Politics

[Ned Rossiter]

*Professor Orit Halpern Lecture - Financializing Intelligence: AI, 
Economics, and Reactionary Politics*

When: Friday 14 February, 1:00pm - 3:00pm

Where: Lecture Theatre 250, Wilkinson Building, University of Sydney

Please register if you are interested in attending:

https://events.humanitix.com/dr-orit-halpren-visiting-scholar-lecture

Chairs:

Professor Heather Horst 
<https://www.sydney.edu.au/architecture/about/our-people/academic-staff/heather-horst.html> 


Professor Ned Rossiter 
<https://researchers.westernsydney.edu.au/en/persons/ned-rossiter>

Discussants:

Dr. Maren Koehler 
<https://www.sydney.edu.au/architecture/about/our-people/academic-staff/maren-koehler.html> 


Associate Professor Charles Barbour 
<https://www.westernsydney.edu.au/ics/people/researchers/charles_barbour>

In this talk Orit Halpern will examine the historical relationship 
between the automation of decision making, freedom, and democracy after 
the 1970’s. Through an examination of financial technologies, economic 
thought, urban planning, and aesthetic practices, she will examine how 
concepts of democracy and intelligence were transformed through novel 
technical practices and ideas.  She does so by tracing a historical 
genealogy of how freedom and democracy came to be linked to 
self-organizing, networked intelligences, and non-conscious decision 
making. Analogous to this development is also the shift to ideas of 
democracy and freedom as not averse too, but supported by, machinic 
decision-making in both people and machines.

Orit Halpern <https://orithalpern.net/about> is Lighthouse Professor and 
Chair of Digital Cultures and Societal Change at Technische Universität 
Dresden. Her work bridges the histories of science, computing, and 
cybernetics with design. Her first book /Beautiful Data: A History of 
Vision and Reason since 1945/ (Duke University Press, 2015) investigates 
histories of big data, design, and governmentality. Her second book /The 
Smartness Mandate/ (with Robert Mitchell, MIT Press, 2023) is a 
genealogy of the current obsession with smart technologies and 
artificial intelligence.

This event is co-hosted by the Sydney School of Architecture, Design and 
Planning <https://www.sydney.edu.au/architecture/>, University of 
Sydney, the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and 
Society <https://www.admscentre.org.au/> and the Institute for Culture 
and Society <https://www.westernsydney.edu.au/ics>, Western Sydney 
University.
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