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Absent Presences in Military Imaginaries of AI-enabled Warfighting
Lucy Suchman (Professor Emerita, Anthropology of Science and Technology, Lancaster University, UK) joins us for this third talk in a series of four from the “Intelligence” in the Absence of Life workshop held on April 9, 2024 at the University of Toronto. The workshop was organized and moderated by Teresa Heffernan, JHI’s 2023-24 Visiting Public Humanities Faculty Fellow.
Those who work in the artificial intelligence industry routinely speak of AI as human-like, but what does it mean to speak of creativity or intelligence or ethics in the absence of life? From the restructuring of labour to AI weapons systems to civil accountability, these talks open a conversation about what gets obscured in the AI hype cycle.
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Abstract: Tracking 21st century militarism’s ongoing commitments to a closed world, this talk considers the constitutive outsides of the AI-enabled military machine through a critical examination of the current U.S. Department of Defense project of Joint All Domain Command and Control (JADC2). Existing primarily in the realms of technopolitical imaginary and speculative investment, JADC2 conjoins sociotechnologies of surveillance, mapping, categorization, and enumeration in data platforms whose interfaces promise privileged access to warfighting’s world. I trace the absent presences that haunt this promise and the challenges to it based on critical scholarship, investigative journalism, creative diplomacy, and veteran activism, which together provide evidence for the continued escape of conflict from the frames of rational action and control on which militarism depends.
Lucy Suchman is Professor Emerita of the Anthropology of Science and Technology at Lancaster University in the UK. Before taking up that post she was a Principal Scientist at Xerox’s Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), where she spent twenty years as a researcher. Her current research extends her longstanding critical engagement with the fields of artificial intelligence and human-computer interaction to the domain of contemporary militarism. She is concerned with the question of whose bodies are incorporated into military systems, how and with what consequences for social justice and the possibility for a less violent world.
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Ethics in Absentia: The Curious Absence of the Human in Moral Reasoning about AI Weapons
zhlédnutí 126Před měsícem
Elke Schwarz (Reader, Political Theory, Queen Mary University of London) joins us for this second talk in a series of four from the “Intelligence” in the Absence of Life workshop held on April 9, 2024 at the University of Toronto. The workshop was organized and moderated by Teresa Heffernan, JHI’s 2023-24 Visiting Public Humanities Faculty Fellow. Those who work in the artificial intelligence i...
AI and the Absence of Civil Accountability
zhlédnutí 29Před měsícem
Ron Deibert (Professor, Political Science, Founder and Director of the Citizen Lab, U of T) joins us for this fourth talk in a series of four from the “Intelligence” in the Absence of Life workshop held on April 9, 2024 at the University of Toronto. The workshop was organized and moderated by Teresa Heffernan, JHI’s 2023-24 Visiting Public Humanities Faculty Fellow. Those who work in the artifi...
Don't Buy the AI Fantasy
zhlédnutí 176Před měsícem
Paris Marx (Journalist, Author, Podcaster, and Critic) joins us for this first talk in a series of four from the “Intelligence” in the Absence of Life workshop held on April 9, 2024 at the University of Toronto. The workshop was organized and moderated by Teresa Heffernan, JHI’s 2023-24 Visiting Public Humanities Faculty Fellow. Introduction by Alison Keith, Director of the Jackman Humanities I...
Music Before Humans
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2024 Wiegand Memorial Foundation Lecture "Music Before Humans" with John Haines, Professor of Music and Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto. Lecture originally given Monday, February 26, 2024. Since its invention some two thousand years ago, the Greek “music” concept (mousike or μουσική) has regularly changed with the times. Before the Greeks, and even long after them, a variety of ot...
Dalit Vedanta: Religious Assertion in Colonial South India
zhlédnutí 311Před 3 měsíci
Presentation by Professor Srilata Raman (University of Toronto, Department for the Study of Religion), a 6-month JHI Faculty Research Fellow in 2022-23. Part of our JHI Alumni Research Lecture Series. Srilata Raman's current book project is about certain obscure and marginalized figures who emerged in South India under the conditions of colonial modernity to either preach or to compose religiou...
Willing, Accidental, or Reluctant Neoliberals?
zhlédnutí 42Před 5 měsíci
Presentation by Professor Dimitry Anastakis (University of Toronto, Department of History and the Rotman School of Management), a 6-month JHI Faculty Research Fellow in 2022-23. Part of our JHI Alumni Research Lecture Series. In this talk, Professor Anastakis offers some thoughts on the question of neoliberalism, Canada-style. He begins by framing the issue and considering some definitions, and...
Reality Was Whatever Happened: Octavia Butler AI and Other Possible Worlds
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Presentation by Beth Coleman (Associate Professor of Data & Cities at the Institute of Communication, Culture, Information and Technology and Faculty of Information, University of Toronto), a 6-month JHI Faculty Research Fellow in 2022-23. Part of our JHI Alumni Research Lecture Series. Reality Was Whatever Happened: Octavia Butler AI and Other Possible Worlds (OBAI) is a groundbreaking generat...
Photographing Absen es: An Illustrated History
zhlédnutí 102Před 5 měsíci
This lecture was given by the JHI's 2023-24 Distinguished Visiting Fellow, Roy Sorensen on November 23, 2023. Sorensen is a Professor of Philosophy, University of Texas, Austin and a Professorial Fellow in Philosophy, University of St. Andrews. Lecture Abstract: We can take photographs of what is present. Can we also photograph what is absent? Some physicists answer no: A photograph records onl...
August Bebel, German Social Democracy, and the Art of Biography
zhlédnutí 143Před 6 měsíci
Presentation by Professor James Retallack (University of Toronto, Department of History), a 6-month JHI Faculty Research Fellow in 2022-23. Part of our JHI Alumni Research Lecture Series. In this talk Retallack considers the challenges of writing the biography of a working-class political superstar. August Bebel was leader of the world’s largest socialist party before 1914. The modern medial ag...
Remembering the 93: Sexual Violence, Ultra-Orthodox Memory, Performance
zhlédnutí 244Před 7 měsíci
For this year’s Annual Jackman Lecture in the Humanities, U of T Professor Naomi Seidman talks about Bais Yaakov holocaust memory and performance culture. Singers Basya Schechter and Aviva Chernick interpret Hebrew and Yiddish folk songs associated with Professor Seidman's lecture. Remembering the 93: Sexual Violence, Ultra-Orthodox Memory, Performance will explore the story-fictional, as it tu...
This Country: Navied Mahdavian in Conversation with Samira Mohyeddin
zhlédnutí 166Před 7 měsíci
Conversation with Navied Mahdavian, the author of the recently published graphic novel This Country: Searching for Home in [Very] Rural America (out in Canada on Sept. 12). This Country is a funny but also personal and politically informed story about the author and his wife moving from San Francisco to rural Idaho during the Trump years. The narrative moves beyond simple stereotypes and reveal...
Speculative Style: Creative Writing as Research
zhlédnutí 117Před 8 měsíci
Presentation by Professor Robert McGill (University of Toronto, Department of English), a 6-month JHI Faculty Research Fellow in 2022-23. Part of our JHI Alumni Research Lecture Series. In this talk, McGill discusses the value of teaching Creative Writing in the academy and the unique affordances of creative writing as a form of scholarly research. Robert also discusses his recent collaborative...
Undoing Apartheid: Premesh Lalu
zhlédnutí 751Před rokem
This panel brings together researchers involved in the Mellon-funded project, “Aesthetic Education: A South-North Dialogue” (2016-2020). In Undoing Apartheid, Premesh Lalu argues that aesthetic education is a process of unlearning, and learning to learn; a reconstitution of the relations of sense and perception that is necessary to revitalize post-apartheid reconciliation. Join us for a lively ...
Interpersonal Obligations and Subordinated Social Groups
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Interpersonal Obligations and Subordinated Social Groups
The Changing Concept of Labour in Marx
zhlédnutí 10KPřed rokem
The Changing Concept of Labour in Marx
India's First Female Leader: Crafting History and Art
zhlédnutí 102Před rokem
India's First Female Leader: Crafting History and Art
Bronze Gears and Ethereal Spheres: The Antikythera Mechanism and Ancient Greek Cosmology
zhlédnutí 1,8KPřed rokem
Bronze Gears and Ethereal Spheres: The Antikythera Mechanism and Ancient Greek Cosmology
Games and the Good Life: From Baseball to Business | Thomas Hurka
zhlédnutí 227Před rokem
Games and the Good Life: From Baseball to Business | Thomas Hurka
The Canadian Clearances: Rural Protest and the Decline of Smallholders in Canada, 1930-1960
zhlédnutí 92Před rokem
The Canadian Clearances: Rural Protest and the Decline of Smallholders in Canada, 1930-1960
Finding a Gem in the History of Analytic Philosophy
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Finding a Gem in the History of Analytic Philosophy
Developing a Toolkit for Community-Engaged Research-Feeding City Lab
zhlédnutí 99Před 2 lety
Developing a Toolkit for Community-Engaged Research-Feeding City Lab
The Art of Love Symposium
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The Art of Love Symposium
Writing Historical Women
zhlédnutí 276Před 2 lety
Writing Historical Women
Craft Matters: A Conversation with Ruby Lal
zhlédnutí 491Před 2 lety
Craft Matters: A Conversation with Ruby Lal
Performing Shame: Traditional and Arts-based Research on Simulations of Stigmatized Minds and Bodies
zhlédnutí 120Před 2 lety
Performing Shame: Traditional and Arts-based Research on Simulations of Stigmatized Minds and Bodies
Mohan Matthen - 2021-22 Faculty Research Fellow
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Mohan Matthen - 2021-22 Faculty Research Fellow
Cold War Migrations on the Korean Peninsula and Pandemic-Era Research
zhlédnutí 73Před 2 lety
Cold War Migrations on the Korean Peninsula and Pandemic-Era Research
Michael Nylan: On Pleasure, Looking Back
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Michael Nylan: On Pleasure, Looking Back

Komentáře

  • @robinmarr1942
    @robinmarr1942 Před 26 dny

    Really insightful, thankyou

  • @CDE4M7
    @CDE4M7 Před 2 měsíci

    Dope Lecture!

  • @briandickman4571
    @briandickman4571 Před 2 měsíci

    Take a look at its similarity to SER-X chart, planet positions linked to crop planting.

  • @AvaPxiaO
    @AvaPxiaO Před 4 měsíci

    The assumption here and of many studies on the subject is that neoliberalism begins as an idea, a political philosophy idea, it develops as a discipline, politicians adopt this idea as an ideology, sell it, get the power to implement the ideas, and remains today as a choice for political parties and other entities to adopt it or reject it, within the parliamentary environment. But what if the assumption is wrong? Why would an idea such as this be born, to address what problem, and by whom, academics and philosophers? If we locate actual transition events that move government and economies towards that direction preceding the birth of the ideology then we invalidated this assumption. If we study what took place before the 1940s that lead to the need for this ideology adoption, and particularly how labor organization in 19th century pushed governments against the wall to make reforms, against the interests of the ruling capitalist class, we can draw alternative conclusions. The realization that behind labor organization were anti-capitalist radicals, particularly marxists, then the Russian revolution takes place, then the near collapse of capitalism in the 30s, class war was live and well. This class war severity forced the upper class to get better organized as they saw government not being strong enough to protect their interests and could easily collapse if it resisted reforms. Already industrialists were seeking alternative labor markets when their domestic ones were becoming too hostile, capital needed to transfer between state borders (see Chrysler in Japan and Diamond industries). Then boom! In the midst of war you get the Bretton-Woods agreement among the industrialized members, a historic event that has drawn insufficient attention. Voluntarily "government officials" passed monetary, financial, and wealth-transfer control to private institutions, stepped aside the regulatory power of import/export of commodities, products, tools, and industrial capital became more free flowing across borders. Then came state debt sold in open private markets and held (also rated) by private institutions. Check-mate. Neoliberalism had already started before officials (capital's puppets) can say the word. The inability of Marxists to theorize on neo-liberalism has allowed all this speculation of what neo-liberalism pretends to be, when it is entirely something very different. In summary it is a global dictatorship that has disempowered nation-states from having any ability to regulate the market, while everything conceivable is becoming a commodity easily transferrble across the globe as a financial instrument through a handful of multinational banking/financial institutions. Government are now hostage and subservient to this global federation of capital hiding behind banking signs. The worst part is what is perceived as left of parliament today is trying to survive in some fake notion of social-democracy reconstruction, which is absolutely baseless and sensless. Eitheir they are too naive or they are lying to seek power and be able to do nothing with it. Also see what was trying to be achieved by the Atlantic and Pacific trade agreements the US was so eager in ratifying. Basically spelling out that nothing that is even remotely related to economic processes can even be proposed in parliaments before it is OKed by specific industries' lobbies that will not be adversely affecting their interests. That leaves out what? Abortion and gay marriage?

  • @tomkelly6361
    @tomkelly6361 Před rokem

    Thanks for sharing! This was a very informative talk!

  • @saliksayyar9793
    @saliksayyar9793 Před rokem

    Apartheid is reported to be ongoing in Palestine, and in India which is reported as the most stratified and unequal society in the world.

  • @Isoviaergatis
    @Isoviaergatis Před rokem

    I admire the link between his theoretical dedication and his sense of practical urgency. Great lecture, very structured. Even though I don't know how I feel about the criticism on the systematized marxist worldview, I agree with his emphasis on the importance of overthrowing capitalism.

  • @matchoftheday3
    @matchoftheday3 Před rokem

    Serious midwit stuff here

    • @matchoftheday3
      @matchoftheday3 Před rokem

      Including marx bum boys in the comments. He’s not the messiah he’s a very naughty boy

    • @Ericozzz
      @Ericozzz Před rokem

      not an argument

    • @furlan1743
      @furlan1743 Před rokem

      Your room temperature in Celsius IQ couldn't elaborate a better argument 😹 brutal IQpill

  • @codedlAnguage
    @codedlAnguage Před rokem

    Really quite interesting Thank you 😃👉💞💞💞👉🎶👉😃👉💗

  • @josephinecunningham5998

    Meanwhile, communist china continues to burn coal, pollute the air, and is not being held accountable for causing the most damage to our climate

  • @gregorytoews8316
    @gregorytoews8316 Před rokem

    Marx was incorrect in his definition of human. I'm betting he's changed his mind.

  • @stewartbrands
    @stewartbrands Před rokem

    Firstly, there is something wrong with a person's brain and mind if they grow that amount of hair on their face as Marx. Secondly this person's ideas are not philosophy or sociology but rather a complicated way to express his hate for others with the warped critical thinking of a complete ass feigning empathy for a group he has nothing to do with. Marx hated and however complex his notions nothing helpful can come from hate nor his stupid complicated puzzle.

  • @Ericozzz
    @Ericozzz Před rokem

    51:28 "the commodity is the social form of a use value which satisfies a need". Very well put.

  • @MultiBurger1
    @MultiBurger1 Před rokem

    Marx was utter filth

    • @hairywhodini3429
      @hairywhodini3429 Před rokem

      Are you a part of the Deep State, or do you just parrot them?

    • @Ericozzz
      @Ericozzz Před rokem

      wrong + ratio

    • @nameincognitus5817
      @nameincognitus5817 Před rokem

      Marx is right

    • @MultiBurger1
      @MultiBurger1 Před rokem

      @@nameincognitus5817 Utter crap He inspired a movement that mass genocided, 10's of millions of human beings

    • @Carl_ATHF
      @Carl_ATHF Před rokem

      marx was not only wrong, but a disgusting talmud enjoyer. about the only thing he did right was be a racist.

  • @Fusionfreakdrummer
    @Fusionfreakdrummer Před rokem

    🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕 Dirty commies

  • @marcella8496
    @marcella8496 Před 2 lety

    Brava, very interesting!