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

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

Bender

For the last special collective radio show (name to be defined), please send either to Tommi or Valentin:

• One glossary entry, composed of one word and around two sentences about it.
  
• One song possibly related to it, that will be partly played during the radio show.
  

We need both by the evening of Friday 21.
During that weekend you will receive privately someone else’s glossary entry. During Monday’s radio show you will have <4 minutes to read out loud/comment/give feedback/do whatever you want about it, thinking retrospectively about what we did together so far. Details to follow.

Today's pad: https://pad.xpub.nl/p/RadioShow8

09:15 - 10:00: Whole group gather at Radio WORM Studio ahead of the broadcast
10:00 - 11:00: Radio Broadcast. Whole group at Radio WORM Studio
11:00 - 12:00: Broadcast debrief / discussion in Worm Bar
12:30 - 13:00 Back to the Aquarium for brief planning session ahead of the Special Issue launch on the 10th December

13:00 - 14:00: Lunch break

14:00-15:15 Presentation by Steve + discussion: 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
Steve notes on AI, hippy legacy of the 'techno-fix':Steve'sNotes24-11-2025

Please read one of the texts below ahead of Monday afternoon's session (pdfs in reader-and-or-Sergio, and have been posted onto Zulip; reading time 45mins max):

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

15:15-16:30 Discussion in smaller annotation groups;(please make notes on pad)
16:30-17:00 Brief debrief

At some point (maybe next week)....
:-)
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

Page from Radical Software (1970)