Claudio Celis Bueno
Biographic Data
| ID | 335304 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Claudio Celis Bueno |
| GIVEN NAMES | Claudio Celis |
| FAMILY NAME | Bueno |
| SIGNATURE | BUENO C C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Amsterdam |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9976-100X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Creative labour and generative AI
In this article, we argue that the benefits and harms of generative AI in the content and conditions of creative labour are not evenly distributed across the cultural industries and between cultural workers. In light of this, we propose a conceptual typology that allows for a more granular and nuanced analysis of the asymmetrical impact of GenAI in creative labour structured around three dimensions: contractual relations, forms of automation, and…
The enduring schism between culture and technique
This article contends that the promises and perils that people ascribe to so-called generative AI are in fact not so singular and that the debates around AI and the arts can be situated within a longer discursive lineage. We claim that antithetical responses to emerging new media historically tend to activate a perceived schism between culture and technique. As such, whenever a new technology appears to impact the artistic process, there is a ten…
Generative AI and creative practices
This essay reflects on divergences and overlaps across two approaches—the industrial and the artistic —in current debates about generative AI and creative practices. We articulate some key differences between the two through the semantic variances in four keywords: technology , creativity , skill , and authorship . These keywords continue to be essential vocabulary in present interdisciplinary investigations into the impact of generative AI on cr…
Not “what”, but “where is creativity?”
The recent emergence of generative AI software as viable tools for use in the cultural and creative industries has sparked debates about the potential for “creativity” to be automated and “augmented” by algorithmic machines. Such discussions, however, begin from an ontological position, attempting to define creativity by either falling prey to universalism (i.e. “creativity is X”) or reductionism (i.e. “only humans can be truly creative” or “huma…
Templates and sovereignty
This article examines how Wikipedians embed their sovereign authority within the development of the site’s multilingual policy environment. By drawing on the concepts of cultural techniques, imagined affordances, and online authority, the edits and comments of editors were examined through a discourse analysis of 15 rules across 15 years. With a focus on the English and Spanish-language Wikipedias and additional comparisons with the Arabic, Dutch…
The cloak of creativity
We critique the ways ‘creativity’ is harnessed by artificial intelligence companies, technologists, cultural producers, and even academics to justify a sense of urgency around the adoption of artificial intelligence tools in creative work. The creative industries have seen the rapid deployment of artificial intelligence-powered video generation tools such as Sora and Runway, accompanied by a broad communication and publicity campaign that emphasi…
Machinic agency and datafication
In this article, we reassess Marxist notions of labour and value for our datafied societies, where data is allegedly becoming one of the dominant sources of economic value. Our contention is that the existing accounts of value, which assume that value is produced exclusively by human labour, are unable to fully account for the processes of exploitation that take place in our digital platform dominated economy. We begin addressing these shortcomin…
Towards a Posthumanist Critique of Large Language Models
This article develops a critique of large language models (LLMs) from a posthumanist perspective. The first part focuses on Emily Bender's critique of LLMs in order to highlight how its conceptual and political axioms have informed recent critiques of ChatGPT. We make a case that this anthropocentric perspective remains insufficient for adequately grasping its conceptual and political consequences. In the second part of the article, we address th…
Transindividual Affect
The aim of this article is to explore how some aspects of Gilbert Simondon's philosophy of individuation may contribute to outlining a posthumanist theory of emotions. According to Simondon, the relation between affection and emotion is a key case study for examining the transindividual character of psychosocial individuation. Affection and emotion appear to him not as a binary opposition, but as an example of a transductive operation. The articl…
Francesco Sticchi (2019) Melancholy Emotion in Contemporary Cinema
Memo Akten’s Learning to See
Diagrama, clichés y algoritmos
El presenta artículo examina la obra El sueño neoliberal (2015) del artista visual chileno Felipe Rivas San Martín a través del concepto de diagrama propuesto por Gilles Deleuze. La obra de Rivas San Martín somete la conocida imagen del bombardeo a La Moneda el 11 de septiembre de 1973 a una interpretación iterativa por parte del algoritmo Deep Dream de Google. Al leer esta operación desde el concepto de diagrama de Deleuze se nos hacen visibles …
La economía de la atención
Este artículo examina la dimensión temporal de la economía de la atención utilizando la noción de tiempo cinemático de Bernard Stiegler. La economía de la atención es un concepto forjado dentro del campo de la economía política para explicar el creciente valor de la atención en un mundo abundante en información. Esto implica una creciente discrepancia entre la finitud del tiempo humano requerido para prestar atención y procesar la información dis…
The Face Revisited
This article explores the political dimension of algorithmic face recognition through the prism of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari's notion of faciality. It argues that algorithmic face recognition is a technology that expresses a key aspect of contemporary capitalism: the problematic position of the individual in light of new forms of algorithmic and statistical regimes of power. While there is a clear relation between modern disciplinary mech…
Harun Farocki's Asignifying Images
With the recent publication of Signs and Machines by Maurizio Lazzarato and Critical Semiotics by Gary Genosko, the concept of asignifying semiotics introduced by Félix Guattari in the late 1960s is regaining attention. This revived interest responds largely to the rise and consolidation of new technologies of power based on algorithmic control and Big Data analysis. In the new context of informational capitalism, Guattari’s asignifying semiotics…
The Face Revisited
This article explores the political dimension of algorithmic face recognition through the prism of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari's notion of faciality. It argues that algorithmic face recognition is a technology that expresses a key aspect of contemporary capitalism: the problematic position of the individual in light of new forms of algorithmic and statistical regimes of power. While there is a clear relation between modern disciplinary mech…
The cloak of creativity
We critique the ways ‘creativity’ is harnessed by artificial intelligence companies, technologists, cultural producers, and even academics to justify a sense of urgency around the adoption of artificial intelligence tools in creative work. The creative industries have seen the rapid deployment of artificial intelligence-powered video generation tools such as Sora and Runway, accompanied by a broad communication and publicity campaign that emphasi…
Harun Farocki's Asignifying Images
With the recent publication of Signs and Machines by Maurizio Lazzarato and Critical Semiotics by Gary Genosko, the concept of asignifying semiotics introduced by Félix Guattari in the late 1960s is regaining attention. This revived interest responds largely to the rise and consolidation of new technologies of power based on algorithmic control and Big Data analysis. In the new context of informational capitalism, Guattari’s asignifying semiotics…
The Face Revisited
This article explores the political dimension of algorithmic face recognition through the prism of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari's notion of faciality. It argues that algorithmic face recognition is a technology that expresses a key aspect of contemporary capitalism: the problematic position of the individual in light of new forms of algorithmic and statistical regimes of power. While there is a clear relation between modern disciplinary mech…
Francesco Sticchi (2019) Melancholy Emotion in Contemporary Cinema
Memo Akten’s Learning to See
Diagrama, clichés y algoritmos
El presenta artículo examina la obra El sueño neoliberal (2015) del artista visual chileno Felipe Rivas San Martín a través del concepto de diagrama propuesto por Gilles Deleuze. La obra de Rivas San Martín somete la conocida imagen del bombardeo a La Moneda el 11 de septiembre de 1973 a una interpretación iterativa por parte del algoritmo Deep Dream de Google. Al leer esta operación desde el concepto de diagrama de Deleuze se nos hacen visibles …
La economía de la atención
Este artículo examina la dimensión temporal de la economía de la atención utilizando la noción de tiempo cinemático de Bernard Stiegler. La economía de la atención es un concepto forjado dentro del campo de la economía política para explicar el creciente valor de la atención en un mundo abundante en información. Esto implica una creciente discrepancia entre la finitud del tiempo humano requerido para prestar atención y procesar la información dis…
Transindividual Affect
The aim of this article is to explore how some aspects of Gilbert Simondon's philosophy of individuation may contribute to outlining a posthumanist theory of emotions. According to Simondon, the relation between affection and emotion is a key case study for examining the transindividual character of psychosocial individuation. Affection and emotion appear to him not as a binary opposition, but as an example of a transductive operation. The articl…
Machinic agency and datafication
In this article, we reassess Marxist notions of labour and value for our datafied societies, where data is allegedly becoming one of the dominant sources of economic value. Our contention is that the existing accounts of value, which assume that value is produced exclusively by human labour, are unable to fully account for the processes of exploitation that take place in our digital platform dominated economy. We begin addressing these shortcomin…
Towards a Posthumanist Critique of Large Language Models
This article develops a critique of large language models (LLMs) from a posthumanist perspective. The first part focuses on Emily Bender's critique of LLMs in order to highlight how its conceptual and political axioms have informed recent critiques of ChatGPT. We make a case that this anthropocentric perspective remains insufficient for adequately grasping its conceptual and political consequences. In the second part of the article, we address th…
Not “what”, but “where is creativity?”
The recent emergence of generative AI software as viable tools for use in the cultural and creative industries has sparked debates about the potential for “creativity” to be automated and “augmented” by algorithmic machines. Such discussions, however, begin from an ontological position, attempting to define creativity by either falling prey to universalism (i.e. “creativity is X”) or reductionism (i.e. “only humans can be truly creative” or “huma…
Templates and sovereignty
This article examines how Wikipedians embed their sovereign authority within the development of the site’s multilingual policy environment. By drawing on the concepts of cultural techniques, imagined affordances, and online authority, the edits and comments of editors were examined through a discourse analysis of 15 rules across 15 years. With a focus on the English and Spanish-language Wikipedias and additional comparisons with the Arabic, Dutch…
The cloak of creativity
We critique the ways ‘creativity’ is harnessed by artificial intelligence companies, technologists, cultural producers, and even academics to justify a sense of urgency around the adoption of artificial intelligence tools in creative work. The creative industries have seen the rapid deployment of artificial intelligence-powered video generation tools such as Sora and Runway, accompanied by a broad communication and publicity campaign that emphasi…
Creative labour and generative AI
In this article, we argue that the benefits and harms of generative AI in the content and conditions of creative labour are not evenly distributed across the cultural industries and between cultural workers. In light of this, we propose a conceptual typology that allows for a more granular and nuanced analysis of the asymmetrical impact of GenAI in creative labour structured around three dimensions: contractual relations, forms of automation, and…
The enduring schism between culture and technique
This article contends that the promises and perils that people ascribe to so-called generative AI are in fact not so singular and that the debates around AI and the arts can be situated within a longer discursive lineage. We claim that antithetical responses to emerging new media historically tend to activate a perceived schism between culture and technique. As such, whenever a new technology appears to impact the artistic process, there is a ten…
Generative AI and creative practices
This essay reflects on divergences and overlaps across two approaches—the industrial and the artistic —in current debates about generative AI and creative practices. We articulate some key differences between the two through the semantic variances in four keywords: technology , creativity , skill , and authorship . These keywords continue to be essential vocabulary in present interdisciplinary investigations into the impact of generative AI on cr…
Philosophy (7 works) · Aesthetics (6 works) · Art (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Ethics and Social Impacts of AI (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Generative grammar (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works)