Alan Díaz Alva
Biographic Data
| ID | 5748378 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alan Díaz Alva |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alan Díaz |
| FAMILY NAME | Alva |
| SIGNATURE | ALVA A D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Leuphana University of Lüneburg |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8192-1754 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Abjection and Formlessness
This article seeks to construct historical and conceptual bridges between digitality, value, and categories of social difference, understanding them as distinct yet interconnected forms of abstraction. To do so, it elaborates on Seb Franklin’s idea that the formalizing logic of capital operates through the differential allocation of form and formlessness. It argues that value-mediated sociality operates through a logic that allocates form while p…
The Fetish of Intelligent Machines
Recent critical scholarship in the nascent field of critical AI studies has vigorously defended the thesis that the forms of 'machine intelligence' deployed by data-intensive capital today (such as machine learning and deep neural networks) depend for their existence on material factors that range from rare minerals to human subjectivity, experience and social practice broadly speaking.Thus, the alleged 'intelligence' or 'smartness' of these tech…
Technics and Contingency
This text aims to explore the relationship between technics and contingency within a context where computational technologies often have the effect of domesticating the latter, leading to its statistical reduction within the realm of the probable. I will argue that the post-prosthetic and non-correlational character of these technologies prompts us to pursue a line of inquiry that calls for a different understanding of contingency. Instead of sol…
Análisis predictivo y protencionalidad digital
What do we mean when we say that algorithms are capable of predicting what is going to happen and anticipating our actions? In the following article I will analyse the phenomena of algorithmic prediction and behavioural anticipation, explaining their convergence in contemporary techniques of predictive analytics. First, I will deal with some possible misconceptions about the predictive capacities of algorithms by delving into probability theory. …
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Technics and Contingency
This text aims to explore the relationship between technics and contingency within a context where computational technologies often have the effect of domesticating the latter, leading to its statistical reduction within the realm of the probable. I will argue that the post-prosthetic and non-correlational character of these technologies prompts us to pursue a line of inquiry that calls for a different understanding of contingency. Instead of sol…
Análisis predictivo y protencionalidad digital
What do we mean when we say that algorithms are capable of predicting what is going to happen and anticipating our actions? In the following article I will analyse the phenomena of algorithmic prediction and behavioural anticipation, explaining their convergence in contemporary techniques of predictive analytics. First, I will deal with some possible misconceptions about the predictive capacities of algorithms by delving into probability theory. …
The Fetish of Intelligent Machines
Recent critical scholarship in the nascent field of critical AI studies has vigorously defended the thesis that the forms of 'machine intelligence' deployed by data-intensive capital today (such as machine learning and deep neural networks) depend for their existence on material factors that range from rare minerals to human subjectivity, experience and social practice broadly speaking.Thus, the alleged 'intelligence' or 'smartness' of these tech…
Abjection and Formlessness
This article seeks to construct historical and conceptual bridges between digitality, value, and categories of social difference, understanding them as distinct yet interconnected forms of abstraction. To do so, it elaborates on Seb Franklin’s idea that the formalizing logic of capital operates through the differential allocation of form and formlessness. It argues that value-mediated sociality operates through a logic that allocates form while p…
Philosophy (3 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Analytics (1 works) · Art (1 works) · Artificial Intelligence (1 works) · Cognitive science (1 works) · Communication and COVID-19 Impact (1 works) · Computer Science (1 works) · Contingency (1 works) · Cybernetics and Technology in Society (1 works)