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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p><b>Professor Orit
Halpern Lecture - Financializing Intelligence: AI,
Economics, and Reactionary Politics</b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">When: Friday 14 February, 1:00pm -
3:00pm<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Where: Lecture Theatre
250, Wilkinson Building, University of Sydney</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Please register if you are
interested in attending:</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a
href="https://events.humanitix.com/dr-orit-halpren-visiting-scholar-lecture"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://events.humanitix.com/dr-orit-halpren-visiting-scholar-lecture</a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Chairs: <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a
href="https://www.sydney.edu.au/architecture/about/our-people/academic-staff/heather-horst.html"
moz-do-not-send="true">Professor Heather Horst</a> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a
href="https://researchers.westernsydney.edu.au/en/persons/ned-rossiter"
moz-do-not-send="true">Professor Ned Rossiter</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Discussants: <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a
href="https://www.sydney.edu.au/architecture/about/our-people/academic-staff/maren-koehler.html"
moz-do-not-send="true">Dr. Maren Koehler</a> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a
href="https://www.westernsydney.edu.au/ics/people/researchers/charles_barbour"
moz-do-not-send="true">Associate Professor Charles
Barbour</a> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">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. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a
href="https://orithalpern.net/about"
moz-do-not-send="true">Orit Halpern</a> 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 <i>Beautiful
Data: A History of Vision and Reason since 1945</i> (Duke
University Press, 2015) investigates histories of big
data, design, and governmentality. Her second book <i>The
Smartness Mandate</i> (with Robert Mitchell, MIT
Press, 2023) is a genealogy of the current obsession
with smart technologies and artificial intelligence. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">This event is co-hosted by the <a
href="https://www.sydney.edu.au/architecture/"
moz-do-not-send="true"> Sydney School of
Architecture, Design and Planning</a>, University of
Sydney, the <a href="https://www.admscentre.org.au/"
moz-do-not-send="true">ARC Centre of Excellence for
Automated Decision-Making and Society</a> and the <a
href="https://www.westernsydney.edu.au/ics"
moz-do-not-send="true">Institute for Culture and
Society</a>, Western Sydney University.<o:p></o:p></p>
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