Birgit Mara Kaiser

Kathrin Thiele

Mercedes Bunz

This book explores the future of critique in view of our planetary condition. How are we to intervene in contemporary constellations of finance capitalism, climate change and neoliberalism? Think we must! To get to the symptoms, the book's 38 terms ranging from affect and affirmation to world and work provide the reader with a critical toolbox to be continued. Negativity, judgment and opposition as modes of critique have run out of steam. Critique as an attitude and a manner of enquiry has not.

A Critical Vocabulary

Symptoms of the Planetary Condition

Laima Janciute

Through algorithms and artificial intelligence (AI), objects and digital services now demonstrate new skills they did not have before, right up to replacing human activity through pre-programming or by making their own decisions. As part of the internet of things, AI applications are already widely used today, for example in language processing, image recognition and the tracking and processing of data.This policy brief illustrates the potential negative and positive impacts of AI and reviews related policy strategies adopted by the UK, US, EU, as well as Canada and China. Based on an ethical approach that considers the role of AI from a democratic perspective and considering the public interest, the authors make policy recommendations that help to strengthen the positive impact of AI and to mitigate its negative consequences.

Artificial Intelligence and the Internet of Things

Annette Wolfsberger

LabforCulture

N. Mullenger

Cultural Bloggers Interviewed is a LabforCulture publication exploring the role of blogging in the cultural sector. Featuring a series of interviews by Annette Wolfsberger with nine renowned bloggers from throughout Europe: including Anne Helmond, Robert Misik, Alek Tarkowski, Marta Peirano and Jose de Vicente, Alessandro Ludovico and Regine de Batty. Introduced by The Guardian journalist and blogger, Mercedes Bunz, who considers the role blogs take in current society.

Cultural Bloggers Interviewed

Dass sich vor unser aller Augen eine dramatische Veränderung vollzieht, zeigen schon die Anglizismen, die sich in unserer Sprache eingenistet haben: Wir mailen, googeln, skypen und twittern. Die digitale Revolution, so die These von Mercedes Bunz, könnte ebenso dramatische Folgen haben wie die industrielle im 19. Jahrhundert. Die Software »Pudding« beispielsweise ist in der Lage, mittels Spracherkennung während eines Telefongesprächs Hintergrundinformationen zu liefern. Das Programm »Stats Monkey« verfasst bereits selbständig Sportreportagen. So wie die Maschinen damals die Tätigkeit der Arbeiter veränderten, verändern nun die Algorithmen den professionellen Alltag der Mittelschicht.

Mercedes Bunz

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