Calendars:XPUB/XPUB Calendar/24-11-2025 -Event 3

XPUB1: SI #28 – week 9
in the Aquarium WH.4.115✅

Bender

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Monday 24 November
10:00 - 11:00: Radio Broadcast. Those with assigned roles at Radio WORM Studio, the others at school (aquarium) to listen
12:15 - 13:00: Broadcast debrief / discussion
13:00 - 14:00: Lunch break
14:00-17:00 Discussing: Jennette Winterton – on AI, Alternative Intelligence and Open AI's Machine Shaped Hand (2025)
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/mar/12/jeanette-winterson-ai-alternative-intelligence-its-capacity-to-be-other-is-just-what-the-human-race-needs
https://www.ted.com/talks/jeanette_winterson_is_humanity_smart_enough_to_survive_itself/transcript
Open AI – A Machine-Shaped Hand (2025): https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/mar/12/a-machine-shaped-hand-read-a-story-from-openais-new-creative-writing-model
Kate Crawford –Atlas of AI (2021) – Labour
Marta Perano & Kate Crawford –in, (re)programming Strategies for Self-Renewal (2024) – better machines for better humans
Emily M. Bender & Alex Hanna – The AI Con (2025)– Leisure for Me, Gig Work for Thee:AI Hype at Work

Image:From Radical Software (1970)

At some point....
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We will resume our discussion about “open ended media systems” (Radical Software, Antfarm, John Cage and Fluxus being historical examples). We will discuss how the 1960s counterculture turned into today's cyberculture, we will consider the lessons learned and the warnings given.
Fred Turner – Shifting Politics of the Computational Metaphor; in From Counterculture to Cyberculture (2006) Gregory Bateson – The Cybernetic Explanation (1967)

Radical Software Issue 1, 1970