Existing in Discrete States
On the Techno-Aesthetics of Algorithmic Being-in-Time
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2353069 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Wolfgang Ernst (0000-0001-8849-5658, Humboldt University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 38 |
| Issue | 7-8 |
| Pages | 13-31 |
| Publication date | 2021-12-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Theory Culture & Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0263-2764 • E-ISSN: 1460-3616 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0263276420966396 |
| OpenAlex | W3108184085 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 20 |
Against a remarkable hardware oblivion in discussions of algorithmic intelligence, this article insists that algorithmic thought, or abstract computation, cannot be separated from its technological implementation. It requires a material medium for an abstract mechanism to become a procedural event. Temporality is both the condition and the limiting (and irritating) factor in the computational function. 'Radical' media archaeology is proposed as a method for such an analysis, and the neologism of techno lógos to describe some aspects of algorithmic reason which only unfold in the moment of its techno-processual coming-into-being. Some core operations, such as the time-discrete rhythm of actual computing algorithms, are discussed, where the 'tempoReal' flashes up in computing. In a wider sense, the time-discreteness of digital computing is related to an aesthetics of existence which acknowledges the machine element within human reasoning itself, while at the same time re-actualizing previous cultural techniques of non-narrative chronology. Turing the 'man' himself, in the sense of the Turing machine, can be addressed 'itself', in its archival sense as a sequence of expressions by symbols
Aesthetics · Algorithm · Art · Cognitive science · Computation · Core (optical fiber · Element (criminal law · Epistemology · Event (particle physics · Function (biology · Linguistics · Literature · Mechanism (biology · Narrative · Neologism · Programming language · Sequence (biology · Temporality · Turing · Turing machine · Computability, Logic, AI Algorithms · Computer Science · Cybernetics and Technology in Society · Digital Media and Philosophy · Philosophy · Psychology · Artificial Intelligence
A Geology of Media
Recursivity and Contingency
Machine Learners
On the Phenomenology of the Consciousness of Internal Time (1893–1917)
On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem
The Extended Mind
I.—computing Machinery and Intelligence
Discursive Formations and Possible Worlds - Reconstruction of Foucault's Archeology
Technics, Individuation and Tertiary Memory
Media Archaeology
Onto-Cartography
Cultural Techniques
The Value of Narrativity in the Representation of Reality
| Citations per year | 2.33 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2023 - 2026 (4) |
| Highly cited | No |