Get Reassembled: PAF Seminars

I’ve just gotten back to the UK from France after visiting PAF, as part of Get Reassembled: Time, Intelligence, Acceleration. This was a really fantastic event, and I can’t thank the organisers enough (Amy Ireland, Katrina Burch, and Deanna Khamis; with special mentions to Lendl Barcelos and Ben Woodard) for putting it together and inviting me to contribute. My contribution took the form of three seminars, which were very graciously streamed and recorded by The New Centre for Research and Practice. The seminars covered a lot of work I’ve been doing in various areas for several years, a good deal of which is catalogued here on deontologistics, but which I haven’t before had the chance to present in a unified form. As such, it is only fitting that I present them here, along with links to the reading I recommended for those attending them. The first two seminars are around 2 hours each, though the last is over 3 hours, partly because of the need to pull together the disparate ideas into a coherent thesis, but also because of some very good questions and subsequent discussions initiated by the participants. This is a lot to watch, but some of you might find the whole thing to be worth the effort.

Freedom, Reason, and AGI 

Required: http://www.theguardian.com/science/2012/oct/03/philosophy-artificial-intelligence 

Required: https://deontologistics.wordpress.com/2013/03/06/freedom-renewed/

Optional: https://deontologistics.files.wordpress.com/2014/07/metzinger-paper-uwe.pdf 

Desire, Autonomy, and Capital

Required: The first two sections of this post: https://deontologistics.wordpress.com/2011/04/22/comments-on-capitalist-realism-part-1/ 

Required: http://deontologistics.tumblr.com/post/91953882443/so-accelerationism-whats-all-that-about

Optional: The rest of the CR post and http://incrediblemachines.info/respondents/wolfendale/ 

Beauty, Justice, and Acceleration

Required: https://deontologistics.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/art-kettle-review.pdf

Optional: https://deontologistics.wordpress.com/2012/01/02/for-the-love-of-spinoza/ 

Optional: https://deontologistics.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/wolfendalefreedom.m4a