Luciana Parisi
Biographic Data
| ID | 265804 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Luciana Parisi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Luciana |
| FAMILY NAME | Parisi |
| SIGNATURE | PARISI L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Goldsmiths University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9233-5806 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 172 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Recursive apocalypse
This article posits that the recursive algorithm of apocalypse, including fascism, can be understood as part of the continuous logic of recursive colonialism. Recursive colonialism explains the relationship between Western European colonialism, the bio-economic model of extraction and computational technology at the core of racial capitalism and its current intensification through the massive planetary deployment of artificial intelligence system…
Cosmocomputation and Negpoethics
While an epistemology of noise-as-contingency has become central to the contemporary critique of AI, this article rather focuses on a politics of noise as contingency. This article turns to the function of contingency for recursive logic by raising the question: Why is recursivity so central to map the cultural and political logic of AI? It is argued that the relationship between recursivity and contingency unravels a dynamic reconfiguration of c…
Whose Time Is It? Book Presentation: Stamatia Portanova in Conversation with Iain Chambers, Luciana Parisi and Tiziana Terranova, Introduced by Geoff Cox
On November 29th 2023, Whose Time Is It? Asocial Robots, Syncholonialism and Artificial Chronological Intelligence by Stamatia Portanova, was presented online by Iain Chambers, Luciana Parisi and Tiziana Terranova, in conversation with the author. The event was introduced by Geoff Cox, one of the two editors, together with Jacob Lund of the series The Contemporary Condition, in which the book was published. After a short introduction of the main …
Recursive Philosophy and Negative Machines
What has philosophy become after computation? Critical positions about what counts as intelligence, reason, and thinking have addressed this question by reenvisioning and pushing debates about the modern question of technology towards new radical visions. Artificial intelligence, it is argued, is replacing transcendental metaphysics with aggregates of data resulting in predictive modes of decision-making, replacing conceptual reflection with prob…
Negative optics in vision machines
What Is (Machine) Philosophy
This interview with the digital media theorist Luciana Parisi opens with the hypothesis that cybernetics is not merely the name for that postwar metascience of command and control. For Parisi, cybernetics names a “historical reconfiguration of metaphysics on behalf of technics.” This interview asks about the meaning and consequences of this hypothesis but steers away from the all-too-easy poiesis-as-panacea solution to the computational quagmire.…
Interactive Computation and Artificial Epistemologies
What is algorithmic thought? It is not possible to address this question without first reflecting on how the Universal Turing Machine transformed symbolic logic and brought to a halt the universality of mathematical formalism and the biocentric speciation of thought. The article draws on Sylvia Wynter's discussion of the sociogenic principle to argue that both neurocognitive and formal models of automated cognition constitute the epistemological …
Data capitalism and the counter futures of ethics in artificial intelligence
Ethics in data science and artificial intelligence have gained broader prominence in both scholarly and public discourse. Much of the scholarly engagements have often been based on perspectives of transparency, politics of representation, moral ethical norms, and refusal. In this article, while the authors agree that there is a problem with the universal model of technology, they argue that what these perspectives do not address is the postcoloni…
The alien subject of AI
Immersed in the networks of artificial intelligences that are constantly learning from each other, the subject today is being configured by the automated architecture of a computational sovereignty (Bratton 2015). All levels of decision-making are harnessed in given sets of probabilities where the individuality of the subject is broken into endlessly divisable digits. These are specifically re-assembled at check points (Deleuze in Negotiations: 1…
Xeno-Patterning: Predictive Intuition and Automated Imagination
If the image of the future has already been colonized by the inevitability of a planetary automation or by the Singularity, is it at all possible to re-introduce alienness in machine thinking beyond a master pattern that knows it all? As contemporary forms of artificial intelligence such as neural nets experiment with predictive learning generating counter-factual models for what has not yet been thought, they have also become productive of machi…
Media Ontology and Transcendental Instrumentality
This article takes inspiration from Kittler's claim that philosophy has neglected the means used for its production. Kittler's argument for media ontology will be compared to the post-Kantian project of re-inventing philosophy through the medium of thought (in particular Deleuze's Spiritual Automaton). The article discusses these views in the context of the automation of logical thinking where procedures, tasks, and functions are part of the inst…
Critical Computation: Digital Automata and General Artificial Thinking
As machines have become increasingly smart and have entangled human thinking with artificial intelligences, it seems no longer possible to distinguish among levels of decision-making that occur in the newly formed space between critical reasoning, logical inference and sheer calculation. Since the 1980s, computational systems of information processing have evolved to include not only deductive methods of decision, whereby results are already impl…
Mediação de conflitos no SUS como ação política transformadora
Este artigo apresenta uma análise de processos de mediação de conflitos no trabalho, realizados no âmbito da instituição pública e gestora do Sistema Único de Saúde de Belo Horizonte - Secretaria Municipal de Saúde de Belo Horizonte (SMSA-SUS-BH) e conduzidos pela Gerência de Gestão do Trabalho e Educação em Saúde (GGTE) da própria Instituição no período entre 2012 a 2015. A análise foi dirigida aos processos de quatro coletivos de trabalho, send…
La raison instrumentale, le capitalisme algorithmique et l'incomputable
La cognition algorithmique joue un rôle central dans le capitalisme contemporain. Depuis la rationalisation du travail industriel et des relations sociales jusqu'à la finance, les algorithmes fondent un nouveau mode de pensée et de contrôle. Dans cette phase du tout-machinique dans l'évolution du capitalisme numérique, il ne suffit plus de se mettre du côté de la théorie critique pour accuser la computation de réduire la pensée humaine à des opér…
Automated Thinking and the Limits of Reason
This article reflects on how the ingression of computation in culture has not only transformed media into algorithmic devices but has also, more importantly, led to the automation of the most precious faculty of the human, namely, reasoning. This article problematizes the tout court refusal of algorithmic thinking as thinking and suggests that we are witnessing the advance of a dynamic form of automated reasoning, exposing the limits of the criti…
Contagious Architecture: Computation, Aesthetics, and Space
A proposal that algorithms are not simply instructions to be performed but thinking entities that construct digital spatio-temporalities. In Contagious Architecture, Luciana Parisi offers a philosophical inquiry into the status of the algorithm in architectural and interaction design. Her thesis is that algorithmic computation is not simply an abstract mathematical tool but constitutes a mode of thought in its own right, in that its operation ext…
Introduction: The Becoming Topological of Culture
In social and cultural theory, topology has been used to articulate changes in structures and spaces of power. In this introduction, we argue that culture itself is becoming topological. In particular, this 'becoming topological' can be identified in the significance of a new order of spatio-temporal continuity for forms of economic, political and cultural life today. This ordering emerges, sometimes without explicit coordination, in practices of…
Digital Design and Topological Control
At the turn of the 21st century, topology, the mathematical study of spatial properties that remain the same under the continuous deformation of objects, has come to invest all fields of aesthetics and culture. In particular, the algebraic topology of continuity has added to the digital realm of binary information, the on and off states of 0s and 1s, an invariant property (e.g. a continuous function), which now governs the relation between differ…
An Archigenesis of Experience
Symbiotic Architecture: Prehending Digitality
This article tackles an old, classical problem, which is acquiring a new epochal relevance with the techno-aesthetic processing of form and substance, expression and content. The field of digital architecture is embarked in the ancient controversy between the line and the curve, binary communication and fuzzy logic. Since the 1990s, the speculative qualities of digital architecture have exposed spatial design to the qualities of growing or breedi…
Biotech: Life by Contagion
This article will discuss recent developments in genetic engineering in relation to nonlinear dynamics of evolution such as endosymbiosis, re-theorized by Lynn Margulis in the 1970s. These dynamics contribute to mapping the nonlinear processes of information transmission that have come to define life beyond inert and entropic matter. As Margulis argues, genetic engineering does not simply manipulate life. Rather, it takes as its model the symbiot…
Generative Classifications
Virtual Matter in Bioinformatic Capitalism
Information Trading and Symbiotic Micropolitics
Research Article| September 01 2004 Information Trading and Symbiotic Micropolitics Luciana Parisi Luciana Parisi Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Social Text (2004) 22 (3 (80)): 25–49. https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-22-3_80-25 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search …
A Matter of Affect: Digital Images and the Cybernetic Re-Wiring of Vision
(2001). A Matter of Affect: Digital Images and the Cybernetic Re-Wiring of Vision. Parallax: Vol. 7, Immanent Trajectories, pp. 122-127
Introduction: The Becoming Topological of Culture
In social and cultural theory, topology has been used to articulate changes in structures and spaces of power. In this introduction, we argue that culture itself is becoming topological. In particular, this 'becoming topological' can be identified in the significance of a new order of spatio-temporal continuity for forms of economic, political and cultural life today. This ordering emerges, sometimes without explicit coordination, in practices of…
Critical Computation: Digital Automata and General Artificial Thinking
As machines have become increasingly smart and have entangled human thinking with artificial intelligences, it seems no longer possible to distinguish among levels of decision-making that occur in the newly formed space between critical reasoning, logical inference and sheer calculation. Since the 1980s, computational systems of information processing have evolved to include not only deductive methods of decision, whereby results are already impl…
Digital Design and Topological Control
At the turn of the 21st century, topology, the mathematical study of spatial properties that remain the same under the continuous deformation of objects, has come to invest all fields of aesthetics and culture. In particular, the algebraic topology of continuity has added to the digital realm of binary information, the on and off states of 0s and 1s, an invariant property (e.g. a continuous function), which now governs the relation between differ…
Interactive Computation and Artificial Epistemologies
What is algorithmic thought? It is not possible to address this question without first reflecting on how the Universal Turing Machine transformed symbolic logic and brought to a halt the universality of mathematical formalism and the biocentric speciation of thought. The article draws on Sylvia Wynter's discussion of the sociogenic principle to argue that both neurocognitive and formal models of automated cognition constitute the epistemological …
Automated Thinking and the Limits of Reason
This article reflects on how the ingression of computation in culture has not only transformed media into algorithmic devices but has also, more importantly, led to the automation of the most precious faculty of the human, namely, reasoning. This article problematizes the tout court refusal of algorithmic thinking as thinking and suggests that we are witnessing the advance of a dynamic form of automated reasoning, exposing the limits of the criti…
Recursive Philosophy and Negative Machines
What has philosophy become after computation? Critical positions about what counts as intelligence, reason, and thinking have addressed this question by reenvisioning and pushing debates about the modern question of technology towards new radical visions. Artificial intelligence, it is argued, is replacing transcendental metaphysics with aggregates of data resulting in predictive modes of decision-making, replacing conceptual reflection with prob…
Media Ontology and Transcendental Instrumentality
This article takes inspiration from Kittler's claim that philosophy has neglected the means used for its production. Kittler's argument for media ontology will be compared to the post-Kantian project of re-inventing philosophy through the medium of thought (in particular Deleuze's Spiritual Automaton). The article discusses these views in the context of the automation of logical thinking where procedures, tasks, and functions are part of the inst…
Mediação de conflitos no SUS como ação política transformadora
Este artigo apresenta uma análise de processos de mediação de conflitos no trabalho, realizados no âmbito da instituição pública e gestora do Sistema Único de Saúde de Belo Horizonte - Secretaria Municipal de Saúde de Belo Horizonte (SMSA-SUS-BH) e conduzidos pela Gerência de Gestão do Trabalho e Educação em Saúde (GGTE) da própria Instituição no período entre 2012 a 2015. A análise foi dirigida aos processos de quatro coletivos de trabalho, send…
Information Trading and Symbiotic Micropolitics
Research Article| September 01 2004 Information Trading and Symbiotic Micropolitics Luciana Parisi Luciana Parisi Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Social Text (2004) 22 (3 (80)): 25–49. https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-22-3_80-25 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search …
An Archigenesis of Experience
Symbiotic Architecture: Prehending Digitality
This article tackles an old, classical problem, which is acquiring a new epochal relevance with the techno-aesthetic processing of form and substance, expression and content. The field of digital architecture is embarked in the ancient controversy between the line and the curve, binary communication and fuzzy logic. Since the 1990s, the speculative qualities of digital architecture have exposed spatial design to the qualities of growing or breedi…
Biotech: Life by Contagion
This article will discuss recent developments in genetic engineering in relation to nonlinear dynamics of evolution such as endosymbiosis, re-theorized by Lynn Margulis in the 1970s. These dynamics contribute to mapping the nonlinear processes of information transmission that have come to define life beyond inert and entropic matter. As Margulis argues, genetic engineering does not simply manipulate life. Rather, it takes as its model the symbiot…
A Matter of Affect: Digital Images and the Cybernetic Re-Wiring of Vision
(2001). A Matter of Affect: Digital Images and the Cybernetic Re-Wiring of Vision. Parallax: Vol. 7, Immanent Trajectories, pp. 122-127
Cosmocomputation and Negpoethics
While an epistemology of noise-as-contingency has become central to the contemporary critique of AI, this article rather focuses on a politics of noise as contingency. This article turns to the function of contingency for recursive logic by raising the question: Why is recursivity so central to map the cultural and political logic of AI? It is argued that the relationship between recursivity and contingency unravels a dynamic reconfiguration of c…
Data capitalism and the counter futures of ethics in artificial intelligence
Ethics in data science and artificial intelligence have gained broader prominence in both scholarly and public discourse. Much of the scholarly engagements have often been based on perspectives of transparency, politics of representation, moral ethical norms, and refusal. In this article, while the authors agree that there is a problem with the universal model of technology, they argue that what these perspectives do not address is the postcoloni…
Xeno-Patterning: Predictive Intuition and Automated Imagination
If the image of the future has already been colonized by the inevitability of a planetary automation or by the Singularity, is it at all possible to re-introduce alienness in machine thinking beyond a master pattern that knows it all? As contemporary forms of artificial intelligence such as neural nets experiment with predictive learning generating counter-factual models for what has not yet been thought, they have also become productive of machi…
La raison instrumentale, le capitalisme algorithmique et l'incomputable
La cognition algorithmique joue un rôle central dans le capitalisme contemporain. Depuis la rationalisation du travail industriel et des relations sociales jusqu'à la finance, les algorithmes fondent un nouveau mode de pensée et de contrôle. Dans cette phase du tout-machinique dans l'évolution du capitalisme numérique, il ne suffit plus de se mettre du côté de la théorie critique pour accuser la computation de réduire la pensée humaine à des opér…
A Matter of Affect: Digital Images and the Cybernetic Re-Wiring of Vision
(2001). A Matter of Affect: Digital Images and the Cybernetic Re-Wiring of Vision. Parallax: Vol. 7, Immanent Trajectories, pp. 122-127
Information Trading and Symbiotic Micropolitics
Research Article| September 01 2004 Information Trading and Symbiotic Micropolitics Luciana Parisi Luciana Parisi Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Social Text (2004) 22 (3 (80)): 25–49. https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-22-3_80-25 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search …
Virtual Matter in Bioinformatic Capitalism
Generative Classifications
Biotech: Life by Contagion
This article will discuss recent developments in genetic engineering in relation to nonlinear dynamics of evolution such as endosymbiosis, re-theorized by Lynn Margulis in the 1970s. These dynamics contribute to mapping the nonlinear processes of information transmission that have come to define life beyond inert and entropic matter. As Margulis argues, genetic engineering does not simply manipulate life. Rather, it takes as its model the symbiot…
An Archigenesis of Experience
Symbiotic Architecture: Prehending Digitality
This article tackles an old, classical problem, which is acquiring a new epochal relevance with the techno-aesthetic processing of form and substance, expression and content. The field of digital architecture is embarked in the ancient controversy between the line and the curve, binary communication and fuzzy logic. Since the 1990s, the speculative qualities of digital architecture have exposed spatial design to the qualities of growing or breedi…
Introduction: The Becoming Topological of Culture
In social and cultural theory, topology has been used to articulate changes in structures and spaces of power. In this introduction, we argue that culture itself is becoming topological. In particular, this 'becoming topological' can be identified in the significance of a new order of spatio-temporal continuity for forms of economic, political and cultural life today. This ordering emerges, sometimes without explicit coordination, in practices of…
Digital Design and Topological Control
At the turn of the 21st century, topology, the mathematical study of spatial properties that remain the same under the continuous deformation of objects, has come to invest all fields of aesthetics and culture. In particular, the algebraic topology of continuity has added to the digital realm of binary information, the on and off states of 0s and 1s, an invariant property (e.g. a continuous function), which now governs the relation between differ…
Contagious Architecture: Computation, Aesthetics, and Space
A proposal that algorithms are not simply instructions to be performed but thinking entities that construct digital spatio-temporalities. In Contagious Architecture, Luciana Parisi offers a philosophical inquiry into the status of the algorithm in architectural and interaction design. Her thesis is that algorithmic computation is not simply an abstract mathematical tool but constitutes a mode of thought in its own right, in that its operation ext…
La raison instrumentale, le capitalisme algorithmique et l'incomputable
La cognition algorithmique joue un rôle central dans le capitalisme contemporain. Depuis la rationalisation du travail industriel et des relations sociales jusqu'à la finance, les algorithmes fondent un nouveau mode de pensée et de contrôle. Dans cette phase du tout-machinique dans l'évolution du capitalisme numérique, il ne suffit plus de se mettre du côté de la théorie critique pour accuser la computation de réduire la pensée humaine à des opér…
Automated Thinking and the Limits of Reason
This article reflects on how the ingression of computation in culture has not only transformed media into algorithmic devices but has also, more importantly, led to the automation of the most precious faculty of the human, namely, reasoning. This article problematizes the tout court refusal of algorithmic thinking as thinking and suggests that we are witnessing the advance of a dynamic form of automated reasoning, exposing the limits of the criti…
Mediação de conflitos no SUS como ação política transformadora
Este artigo apresenta uma análise de processos de mediação de conflitos no trabalho, realizados no âmbito da instituição pública e gestora do Sistema Único de Saúde de Belo Horizonte - Secretaria Municipal de Saúde de Belo Horizonte (SMSA-SUS-BH) e conduzidos pela Gerência de Gestão do Trabalho e Educação em Saúde (GGTE) da própria Instituição no período entre 2012 a 2015. A análise foi dirigida aos processos de quatro coletivos de trabalho, send…
The alien subject of AI
Immersed in the networks of artificial intelligences that are constantly learning from each other, the subject today is being configured by the automated architecture of a computational sovereignty (Bratton 2015). All levels of decision-making are harnessed in given sets of probabilities where the individuality of the subject is broken into endlessly divisable digits. These are specifically re-assembled at check points (Deleuze in Negotiations: 1…
Xeno-Patterning: Predictive Intuition and Automated Imagination
If the image of the future has already been colonized by the inevitability of a planetary automation or by the Singularity, is it at all possible to re-introduce alienness in machine thinking beyond a master pattern that knows it all? As contemporary forms of artificial intelligence such as neural nets experiment with predictive learning generating counter-factual models for what has not yet been thought, they have also become productive of machi…
Media Ontology and Transcendental Instrumentality
This article takes inspiration from Kittler's claim that philosophy has neglected the means used for its production. Kittler's argument for media ontology will be compared to the post-Kantian project of re-inventing philosophy through the medium of thought (in particular Deleuze's Spiritual Automaton). The article discusses these views in the context of the automation of logical thinking where procedures, tasks, and functions are part of the inst…
Critical Computation: Digital Automata and General Artificial Thinking
As machines have become increasingly smart and have entangled human thinking with artificial intelligences, it seems no longer possible to distinguish among levels of decision-making that occur in the newly formed space between critical reasoning, logical inference and sheer calculation. Since the 1980s, computational systems of information processing have evolved to include not only deductive methods of decision, whereby results are already impl…
Data capitalism and the counter futures of ethics in artificial intelligence
Ethics in data science and artificial intelligence have gained broader prominence in both scholarly and public discourse. Much of the scholarly engagements have often been based on perspectives of transparency, politics of representation, moral ethical norms, and refusal. In this article, while the authors agree that there is a problem with the universal model of technology, they argue that what these perspectives do not address is the postcoloni…
Negative optics in vision machines
What Is (Machine) Philosophy
This interview with the digital media theorist Luciana Parisi opens with the hypothesis that cybernetics is not merely the name for that postwar metascience of command and control. For Parisi, cybernetics names a “historical reconfiguration of metaphysics on behalf of technics.” This interview asks about the meaning and consequences of this hypothesis but steers away from the all-too-easy poiesis-as-panacea solution to the computational quagmire.…
Interactive Computation and Artificial Epistemologies
What is algorithmic thought? It is not possible to address this question without first reflecting on how the Universal Turing Machine transformed symbolic logic and brought to a halt the universality of mathematical formalism and the biocentric speciation of thought. The article draws on Sylvia Wynter's discussion of the sociogenic principle to argue that both neurocognitive and formal models of automated cognition constitute the epistemological …
Recursive Philosophy and Negative Machines
What has philosophy become after computation? Critical positions about what counts as intelligence, reason, and thinking have addressed this question by reenvisioning and pushing debates about the modern question of technology towards new radical visions. Artificial intelligence, it is argued, is replacing transcendental metaphysics with aggregates of data resulting in predictive modes of decision-making, replacing conceptual reflection with prob…
Whose Time Is It? Book Presentation: Stamatia Portanova in Conversation with Iain Chambers, Luciana Parisi and Tiziana Terranova, Introduced by Geoff Cox
On November 29th 2023, Whose Time Is It? Asocial Robots, Syncholonialism and Artificial Chronological Intelligence by Stamatia Portanova, was presented online by Iain Chambers, Luciana Parisi and Tiziana Terranova, in conversation with the author. The event was introduced by Geoff Cox, one of the two editors, together with Jacob Lund of the series The Contemporary Condition, in which the book was published. After a short introduction of the main …
Recursive apocalypse
This article posits that the recursive algorithm of apocalypse, including fascism, can be understood as part of the continuous logic of recursive colonialism. Recursive colonialism explains the relationship between Western European colonialism, the bio-economic model of extraction and computational technology at the core of racial capitalism and its current intensification through the massive planetary deployment of artificial intelligence system…
Cosmocomputation and Negpoethics
While an epistemology of noise-as-contingency has become central to the contemporary critique of AI, this article rather focuses on a politics of noise as contingency. This article turns to the function of contingency for recursive logic by raising the question: Why is recursivity so central to map the cultural and political logic of AI? It is argued that the relationship between recursivity and contingency unravels a dynamic reconfiguration of c…
Computer Science (17 works) · Philosophy (12 works) · Epistemology (11 works) · Philosophy (11 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Artificial Intelligence (8 works) · Political science (7 works) · Embodied and Extended Cognition (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Cognitive science (5 works)