Education
Our third podcast engages with some of the ideas, and fears, regarding computer-led cognition, as proposed by James Bridle in his book New Dark Age. Our discussion flows, and meanders over a contemporary landscape populated with notions of code/spaces, hyperobjects and computational thinking. We discuss the enmeshing of the digital and the physical environments that we live in, the limitations of computer science and modelling, and the shadow of the male ego in the tech landscape of today. We mull over the significance of Deep Blue and AlphaGo, and the singular obsession with speed in the financial sector. Finally, we end up by opening our imaginations to the explosive contemporary folk culture of conspiracy theories. Links: https://www.versobooks.com/books/3002-new-dark-age https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/codespace https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/hyperobjects https://jamesclear.com/great-speeches/this-is-water-by-david-foster-wallace