Algorithms, Poetry and Protest: The Politics of Making Things That Matter Online

Alex Saum

UC Berkeley

@alexsaum

Escuela internacional de tecnología, sociedad y cultura. Explorando el futuro desde las humanidades digitales: I Culturas algorítmicas

Universidad Internacional Menéndez Pelayo

17 Sept 2020

Popular advertisement images promoting international tourism in the 1960s

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Taken from the San Francisco Chronicle, Sept 9th, 2020, in relation to this year's fire season

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Part I: Networks, Binaries and Critical Digital Materiality in the Capitalocene

(we are in this section now, hi!)

Part II. Amazon, Defoooooooooooooooooooooooorest and Word Market: Three Abstract Engagements with Material Life on Earth

Part III. Digital Materiality, the Modern State and Other Abstractions

Some key words of what I am talking about right now:

net art

electronic literature

la Tierra y la tierra (T/tierra)

Eugenio Tisselli

Joana Moll

Belén Gache

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Jason Moore has advanced the notion of the Capitalocene, where the role of capital is seen as a way of organizing nature “as a multispecies, situated, capitalist world ecology”

(from Anthropocene or Capitalocene? Nature, History and the Crisis of Capitalism. Jason Moore Ed. Oakland: PM Press, 2016. 1-13)

Eugenio Tiselli. El 27/ The 27th

Eugenio Tiselli and Joana Moll. IFAPA.ME

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Part II. Amazon, Defoooooooooooooooooooooooorest and Word Market: Three Abstract Engagements with Material Life on Earth

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Eugenio Tisselli. Amazon (2019)

Joana Moll. DEFOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOREST (2016)

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Belen Gache. Word Market (2012)

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Part III. Digital Materiality, the Modern State and Other Abstractions

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Some works cited

Brown, Bill “Materiality,” Critical Terms for Media Studies, W. J. T. Mitchell and Mark B.N. Hansen Eds. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010. 49-63.

 

Chakrabarty, Dipesh. “The Climate of History: Four Theses.” Critical Inquiry. 35. 2 (Winter 2009): 197-222

 

Crutzen, Paul J. and Eugene Stoermer. 2000. “The Antropocene.” IGBP [International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme] Newsletter, no. 41: 17-18

 

EFE, “España, el país europeo donde más ha aumentado el uso de redes sociales.” La Vanguardia, May 5. 2020. Accessed Aug 26, 2020 https://www.lavanguardia.com/tecnologia/20200505/48991464987/espana-el-pais-europeo-donde-mas-ha-aumentado-el-uso-de-redes-sociales.html

 

Hayles, Katherine N. Writing Machines. Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2002

_____My Mother Was a Computer: Digital Subjects and Literary Texts. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2005

 

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Haraway, Donna. “Otherworldly Conversations; Terran Topics; Local Terms,” Science as Culture, 3.1 (1992) 64-98

_____ Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene. Durham: Duke University Press, 2016

_____ The Companion Species Manifesto: Dogs, People, and Significant Otherness. Chicago: Prickly Paradigm Press, 2003.

 

Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais. “Monitoramento do Desmatamento da Floresta Amazônica Brasileira por Satélite” July 15, 2020. Accessed Sept 2, 2020. http://www.obt.inpe.br/OBT/assuntos/programas/amazonia/prodes

 

Karhio, Anne. “Ethics and Aesthetics of (Digital) Space: Institutions, Borders and Transnational Frameworks of Digital Creative Practice in Ireland” electronic book review. October 2020.

 

Lukács, George. History and Class Consciousness: Studies in Marxist Dialectics. Rodney Livingstone Trans. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1971

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McBrien, Justin.. “Accumulating Extinction: Planetary Catastrophism in the Necrocene.” Anthropocene or Capitalocene? Nature, History and the Crisis of Capitalism. Jason Moore Ed. Oakland: PM Press, 2016 116-137

 

Moll, Joana. CO2GLE, 2014. Accessed Sept 1, 2020 http://www.janavirgin.com/CO2/

_____DEFOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOREST, 2016. Accessed Sept 15 , 2020 http://www.janavirgin.com/CO2/DEFOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOREST_about.html

 

Moore, Jason. “Introduction.” Anthropocene or Capitalocene? Nature, History and the Crisis of Capitalism. Jason Moore Ed. Oakland: PM Press, 2016. 1-13

 

Parenti, Christian. “Environment-Making in the Capitalocene: Political Ecology of the State,” Anthropocene or Capitalocene? Nature, History and the Crisis of Capitalism. Jason Moore Ed. Oakland: PM Press 116-137

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Tisselli, Eugenio. El 27/The 27, 2014. Accessed August 14, 2020. http://motorhueso.net/27/

_____Amazon. Accessed Sept 14, 2020 http://motorhueso.net/amazon/

_____ “On Amazon,” Talk at ELO2020 Annual Conference. July 17, 2020

_____ “Why I have stopped creating e-lit” Netartery. Nov 25, 2011. Accessed August 27, 2020. http://netartery.vispo.com/?p=1211

 

Saum-Pascual, Alex. “Memory Traces: Printed Electronic Literature as a Site of Remembrance.” Comparative Literature Studies, 57.1 (2020): 69-94

 

Stiegler, Bernard. “Relational Ecology and the Digital Pharmakon.” Culture Machine 13 (2012): n. pag.

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