Joanna Zylinska
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 161585 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Joanna Zylinska |
| NOMBRES | Joanna |
| APELLIDO | Zylinska |
| FIRMA | ZYLINSKA J |
| AFILIACIONES | Goldsmiths University of London |
| ORCID | 0009-0002-2829-2327 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 28 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 87 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 28 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1998 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Our photographic future
This interview with Joanna Zylinska was conducted by Alex Fletcher on 8 July 2025. It focuses on Zylinska’s recent study The Perception Machine: Our Photographic Future Between the Eye and AI (2023), which investigates the future of photography and human perception in the age of AI. The interview explores the critical affordances of key concepts developed in the book – including ‘a philosophy of after-photography’, ‘the perception machine’ and ‘p…
Image thinking after artificial intelligence
This article proposes that, through synthesizing language acts with visualization processes, generative AI is currently altering the architecture of human cognition, necessitating a new way of understanding our relationship with images. The multifaceted concept of ‘image thinking’ offered in its title refers to: (1) our human thinking about images – a key area of enquiry for Visual Culture; (2) image generation through cognitive processes, be the…
El fin del hombre. Un contrapocalipsis feminista. Una conversación con Joanna Zylinska
Este grupo multidisciplinario (GEI) está interesado en formular preguntas y realizar exploraciones sobre lo inconsciente a partir de las políticas sexuales, corporales, estéticas y económicas contemporáneas, desde campos como el psicoanálisis, la filosofía, el feminismo, la antropología y el arte. Está integrado por Marta Lamas, Eva Alcántara, Patricio Villareal, Axel Rivera, Gabriela Méndez Cota, Zenia Yébenes, Alix Almendra y Rodrigo Parrini. L…
Poza widzeniem maszynowym. Jak zbudować nietrywialną maszynę percepcji
Jak widzie lepiej ni ludzie W niniejszym artykule omawiam zagadnienie sztucznej inteligencji i sztucznej kreatywnoci przez pryzmat widzenia maszynowego (il. 1 i 2).Uwypuklajc machinacje towarzyszce wytwarzaniu koncepcji i praktyki widzenia u maszyn oraz u ludzi 1 , rozpatruj w tekcie wpyw modelu widzenia wypracowanego w informatyce na nasze wartoci i instytucje spoeczno
Diffused Seeing
This article examines the transformation of the relationship between seeing and understanding in humans and machines by the technologies of machine learning known as ‘generative AI’. Taking Stable Diffusion as the main case study, while also looking at its competitors (DALL·E 2 and Midjourney), it starts by analysing the photographic infrastructure underpinning these generative models. The subsequent examination of ‘diffusion’ as a key concept th…
Joanna Zylinska. La inteligencia artificial en la creación artística
Conversamos con Joanna Zylinska, catedrática de Filosofía de los Medios y Práctica Crítica Digital en el King’s College de Londres. Como destacada investigadora en estudios sobre medios digitales y tecnología, su trabajo examina las intersecciones entre cultura, tecnología, ética y arte, y cómo la tecnología moldea nuestra percepción del mundo y nuestra comprensión del arte contemporáneo. Su perspectiva crítica y reflexiva sobre la relación entre…
Beyond Machine Vision
Approaching the problem of artificial creativity through the lens of machine vision, this article examines the impact of computer science’s model of vision on our socio-political values and institutions. It also proposes a creative experiment in “conceptual engineering,” which entails an attempt to build a non-trivial perception machine. This idea references two science papers on the relationship between humans and machines: Heinz von Foerster’s …
Between Page and Screen
Since the earlier twentieth century, literary genres have traveled across magnetic, wireless, and electronic planes. Literature may now be anything from acoustic poetry and oral performance to verbal–visual constellations in print and on screen, cinematic narratives, or electronic textualities that range from hypertext to Flash. New technologies have left their imprint on literature as a paper-based medium, and vice versa. This volume explores th…
Future of Media
Postcards from the End of the World
Postcards from the End of the World arises out of my work as a theorist-practitioner with a longstanding interest in “the end of the world”. This interest has been fuelled by the multiple crises of
Nonhuman Photography
A new philosophy of photography that goes beyond humanist concepts to consider imaging practices from which the human is absent, as both subject and agent. Today, in the age of CCTV, drones, medical body scans, and satellite images, photography is increasingly decoupled from human agency and human vision. In Nonhuman Photography, Joanna Zylinska offers a new philosophy of photography, going beyond the human-centric view to consider imaging practi…
Fotografia po człowieku
This article deals with images ‘after the human’. This expression refers not only to the material disappearance or conceptual displacement of the individual into the distant future, but also to the presentation of that disappearance here and now. Artistic (re) presentations of how the world as we know it vanishes, often described as ‘ruin porn’, have predecessors in Romantic landscape paintings or works such as Joseph Gandy’s Rotunda, which shows…
Photography After the Human
How can we visualise and subsequently reimagine the abstraction that is the extinction of human species while there is still time? The article addresses this question by considering the existence of images — and, in particular, light-induced mechanical images known as photographs — after the human. The “after the human” designation does not just refer to the material disappearance of the human in some kind of distant future, but also to the prese…
Czy mamy bać się końca świata? Afekt, geologia i posthumanizm jako wyznaczniki nowego horyzontu w humanistyce
Wywód przedstawiony w tym artykule rozpocznę, przewrotnie być może, od pewnej sprzeczności. Z jednej strony chcę od razu zaznaczyć, że nieustanne zwroty, które raz po raz (rzekomo) zachodzą we współczesnej humanistyce, wzbudzają we mnie niejaką podejrzliwość – w ciągu ostatnich dekad przechodziliśmy przez zwrot językowy, kulturowy, przestrzenny, ontologiczny czy też neomaterialistyczny . Z drugiej strony badania, którymi się obecnie zajmuję, chci…
Bioethics Otherwise, or, How to Live with Machines, Humans, and Other Animals1
The article is an attempt to return at the human being .after the cyborg, originating in the need to overcome the posthumanist impasse of some of the trends of contemporary cultural theory. The author is not trying to fix the identity of human/non-human animal in all of its bio-digital configurations, but rather discuss to what extent the transformed understanding of human being can not only help us think better about ourselves and other who can …
On Life, Movement and Stoppage
Responding to the current narratives about the impending planetary catastrophe caused by our human activity, this philosophy-cum-art piece develops a more affirmative story about life, death and extinction. Framed as a non-normative ethics for the Anthropocene, it considers the human’s expanded obligations towards the bio- and geosphere, while also critically reflecting on the very constitution of this “human”
Minimal Ethics for the Anthropocene
Summa Technologiae
Life after New Media
An argument for a shift in understanding new media—from a fascination with devices to an examination of the complex processes of mediation. In Life after New Media, Sarah Kember and Joanna Zylinska make a case for a significant shift in our understanding of new media. They argue that we should move beyond our fascination with objects—computers, smart phones, iPods, Kindles—to an examination of the interlocking technical, social, and biological pr…
On Bad Archives, Unruly Snappers and Liquid Photographs
This article explores anxieties over the challenge digitisation poses to our established notions of art, culture and the media. It also questions some of the ways of defending these established notions and values via multiple strategies of remembrance, archiving and data storage. Although photographic arts – in particular, Gerhard Richter's Atlas, Walid Ra'ad's The Atlas Group Archive, Tacita Dean's Floh – provide an entry point for the discussio…
You Killed Barack Obama, 2008
In the midst of the pre-election Obama-mania that spread well beyond the United States, a Polish street artist working under the pseudonym ‘Peter Fuss’ exhibited his controversial piece, ‘Who Killed Barack Obama?’ Part of the summer 2008 ‘Out of Sth’ show of urban art in the Polish city of Wroclaw, Fuss’s canvas covered the front wall of the city’s gallery of contemporary art, BWA Awangarda, like a mourning shawl (see Figure 1). The piece evoked …
Of Swans and Ugly Ducklings
Reality Made Over, part II, special issue of journal Configurations edited by Bernadette Wegenstein This article takes as its starting point a consideration of makeover show The Swan-in which contestants undergo a total transformation via radical cosmetic surgery as well as confidence training-within context of Michel Foucault's and Giorgio Agamben's work on biopolitics. Biopolitics is a form of political regime under which bodies and minds of ci…
The Secret of Life
This article starts from the premise that, if there is something like an ethico-political imperative in cultural studies – i.e. an imperative to respond to, and take responsibility for, incalculabl
Cultural Studies and Ethics
Mediating murder
How does one do justice to parents who have lost their child in street violence? Can the crimes of the Oklahoma bomber or the 9/11“terrorists” be really avenged? How does one respond ethically to murder? What kind of calculation principle is applicable here? These are the sorts of questions I investigate in my essay, devoted to the exploration of the issue of “mediated murder” in contemporary late capitalist societies. Taking as my starting point…
Minimal Ethics for the Anthropocene
The universal acts
Drawing on official acts of Western multicultural democracies – predominantly the UK Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act (2002) and its accompanying documents and actions – this article investigates, via an engagement with Judith Butler, the constitution of 'the biopolitics of immigration'. It also argues that the biopolitics of immigration both presupposes – in the form of an injunction – and produces a certain ethics: what the author calls,…
Photography After the Human
How can we visualise and subsequently reimagine the abstraction that is the extinction of human species while there is still time? The article addresses this question by considering the existence of images — and, in particular, light-induced mechanical images known as photographs — after the human. The “after the human” designation does not just refer to the material disappearance of the human in some kind of distant future, but also to the prese…
Of Swans and Ugly Ducklings
Reality Made Over, part II, special issue of journal Configurations edited by Bernadette Wegenstein This article takes as its starting point a consideration of makeover show The Swan-in which contestants undergo a total transformation via radical cosmetic surgery as well as confidence training-within context of Michel Foucault's and Giorgio Agamben's work on biopolitics. Biopolitics is a form of political regime under which bodies and minds of ci…
On Bad Archives, Unruly Snappers and Liquid Photographs
This article explores anxieties over the challenge digitisation poses to our established notions of art, culture and the media. It also questions some of the ways of defending these established notions and values via multiple strategies of remembrance, archiving and data storage. Although photographic arts – in particular, Gerhard Richter's Atlas, Walid Ra'ad's The Atlas Group Archive, Tacita Dean's Floh – provide an entry point for the discussio…
The feminine sublime
(1998). The feminine sublime: Between aesthetics and ethics. Women: A Cultural Review: Vol. 9, No. 1, pp. 97-105
The feminine sublime
(1998). The feminine sublime: Between aesthetics and ethics. Women: A Cultural Review: Vol. 9, No. 1, pp. 97-105
An Ethical Manifesto for Cultural Studies … Perhaps
Mediating murder
How does one do justice to parents who have lost their child in street violence? Can the crimes of the Oklahoma bomber or the 9/11“terrorists” be really avenged? How does one respond ethically to murder? What kind of calculation principle is applicable here? These are the sorts of questions I investigate in my essay, devoted to the exploration of the issue of “mediated murder” in contemporary late capitalist societies. Taking as my starting point…
The universal acts
Drawing on official acts of Western multicultural democracies – predominantly the UK Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act (2002) and its accompanying documents and actions – this article investigates, via an engagement with Judith Butler, the constitution of 'the biopolitics of immigration'. It also argues that the biopolitics of immigration both presupposes – in the form of an injunction – and produces a certain ethics: what the author calls,…
Cultural Studies and Ethics
Of Swans and Ugly Ducklings
Reality Made Over, part II, special issue of journal Configurations edited by Bernadette Wegenstein This article takes as its starting point a consideration of makeover show The Swan-in which contestants undergo a total transformation via radical cosmetic surgery as well as confidence training-within context of Michel Foucault's and Giorgio Agamben's work on biopolitics. Biopolitics is a form of political regime under which bodies and minds of ci…
The Secret of Life
This article starts from the premise that, if there is something like an ethico-political imperative in cultural studies – i.e. an imperative to respond to, and take responsibility for, incalculabl
You Killed Barack Obama, 2008
In the midst of the pre-election Obama-mania that spread well beyond the United States, a Polish street artist working under the pseudonym ‘Peter Fuss’ exhibited his controversial piece, ‘Who Killed Barack Obama?’ Part of the summer 2008 ‘Out of Sth’ show of urban art in the Polish city of Wroclaw, Fuss’s canvas covered the front wall of the city’s gallery of contemporary art, BWA Awangarda, like a mourning shawl (see Figure 1). The piece evoked …
On Bad Archives, Unruly Snappers and Liquid Photographs
This article explores anxieties over the challenge digitisation poses to our established notions of art, culture and the media. It also questions some of the ways of defending these established notions and values via multiple strategies of remembrance, archiving and data storage. Although photographic arts – in particular, Gerhard Richter's Atlas, Walid Ra'ad's The Atlas Group Archive, Tacita Dean's Floh – provide an entry point for the discussio…
Life after New Media
An argument for a shift in understanding new media—from a fascination with devices to an examination of the complex processes of mediation. In Life after New Media, Sarah Kember and Joanna Zylinska make a case for a significant shift in our understanding of new media. They argue that we should move beyond our fascination with objects—computers, smart phones, iPods, Kindles—to an examination of the interlocking technical, social, and biological pr…
Summa Technologiae
Minimal Ethics for the Anthropocene
Czy mamy bać się końca świata? Afekt, geologia i posthumanizm jako wyznaczniki nowego horyzontu w humanistyce
Wywód przedstawiony w tym artykule rozpocznę, przewrotnie być może, od pewnej sprzeczności. Z jednej strony chcę od razu zaznaczyć, że nieustanne zwroty, które raz po raz (rzekomo) zachodzą we współczesnej humanistyce, wzbudzają we mnie niejaką podejrzliwość – w ciągu ostatnich dekad przechodziliśmy przez zwrot językowy, kulturowy, przestrzenny, ontologiczny czy też neomaterialistyczny . Z drugiej strony badania, którymi się obecnie zajmuję, chci…
Bioethics Otherwise, or, How to Live with Machines, Humans, and Other Animals1
The article is an attempt to return at the human being .after the cyborg, originating in the need to overcome the posthumanist impasse of some of the trends of contemporary cultural theory. The author is not trying to fix the identity of human/non-human animal in all of its bio-digital configurations, but rather discuss to what extent the transformed understanding of human being can not only help us think better about ourselves and other who can …
On Life, Movement and Stoppage
Responding to the current narratives about the impending planetary catastrophe caused by our human activity, this philosophy-cum-art piece develops a more affirmative story about life, death and extinction. Framed as a non-normative ethics for the Anthropocene, it considers the human’s expanded obligations towards the bio- and geosphere, while also critically reflecting on the very constitution of this “human”
Photography After the Human
How can we visualise and subsequently reimagine the abstraction that is the extinction of human species while there is still time? The article addresses this question by considering the existence of images — and, in particular, light-induced mechanical images known as photographs — after the human. The “after the human” designation does not just refer to the material disappearance of the human in some kind of distant future, but also to the prese…
Nonhuman Photography
A new philosophy of photography that goes beyond humanist concepts to consider imaging practices from which the human is absent, as both subject and agent. Today, in the age of CCTV, drones, medical body scans, and satellite images, photography is increasingly decoupled from human agency and human vision. In Nonhuman Photography, Joanna Zylinska offers a new philosophy of photography, going beyond the human-centric view to consider imaging practi…
Fotografia po człowieku
This article deals with images ‘after the human’. This expression refers not only to the material disappearance or conceptual displacement of the individual into the distant future, but also to the presentation of that disappearance here and now. Artistic (re) presentations of how the world as we know it vanishes, often described as ‘ruin porn’, have predecessors in Romantic landscape paintings or works such as Joseph Gandy’s Rotunda, which shows…
Postcards from the End of the World
Postcards from the End of the World arises out of my work as a theorist-practitioner with a longstanding interest in “the end of the world”. This interest has been fuelled by the multiple crises of
Beyond Machine Vision
Approaching the problem of artificial creativity through the lens of machine vision, this article examines the impact of computer science’s model of vision on our socio-political values and institutions. It also proposes a creative experiment in “conceptual engineering,” which entails an attempt to build a non-trivial perception machine. This idea references two science papers on the relationship between humans and machines: Heinz von Foerster’s …
Between Page and Screen
Since the earlier twentieth century, literary genres have traveled across magnetic, wireless, and electronic planes. Literature may now be anything from acoustic poetry and oral performance to verbal–visual constellations in print and on screen, cinematic narratives, or electronic textualities that range from hypertext to Flash. New technologies have left their imprint on literature as a paper-based medium, and vice versa. This volume explores th…
Future of Media
Joanna Zylinska. La inteligencia artificial en la creación artística
Conversamos con Joanna Zylinska, catedrática de Filosofía de los Medios y Práctica Crítica Digital en el King’s College de Londres. Como destacada investigadora en estudios sobre medios digitales y tecnología, su trabajo examina las intersecciones entre cultura, tecnología, ética y arte, y cómo la tecnología moldea nuestra percepción del mundo y nuestra comprensión del arte contemporáneo. Su perspectiva crítica y reflexiva sobre la relación entre…
Diffused Seeing
This article examines the transformation of the relationship between seeing and understanding in humans and machines by the technologies of machine learning known as ‘generative AI’. Taking Stable Diffusion as the main case study, while also looking at its competitors (DALL·E 2 and Midjourney), it starts by analysing the photographic infrastructure underpinning these generative models. The subsequent examination of ‘diffusion’ as a key concept th…
Our photographic future
This interview with Joanna Zylinska was conducted by Alex Fletcher on 8 July 2025. It focuses on Zylinska’s recent study The Perception Machine: Our Photographic Future Between the Eye and AI (2023), which investigates the future of photography and human perception in the age of AI. The interview explores the critical affordances of key concepts developed in the book – including ‘a philosophy of after-photography’, ‘the perception machine’ and ‘p…
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