Date: Friday 25 January
Time: 4:00pm-5:30pm
Venue: Seminar Rooms 8-9
Speaker: Benjamin H. Bratton
Title: 2 or 3 Things I Know About The Stack: Projects and Projections Toward the Acceleration of Integral Accidents
As a regime, planetary computation operates at multiple scales, from cloud computing to addressable nanobots. Instead of thinking of this heterogeneity as a unstructured proliferation of incommensurable technologies, they should be understood as layers of an emergent hardware/ software stack. The Stack is a megastructure built out of far-flung data centers, embedded urban applications, universal addressing schemes, weird quasi-sovereign geographies, and maniacal self-quantification. How might the emergent geopolitics of this architecture be designed? How to intervene? Bio: Benjamin H. Bratton is a theorist whose work spans Philosophy, Art and Design. He is Associate Professor of Visual Arts and Director of D:GP, The Center for Design and Geopolitics at the University of California. http://bratton.info<http://bratton.info/>