The Internet as Playground and Factory, Nov 12-14, The New School, NY
This digital labor conference focuses on play and work in the networked economy. There is also a cluster of study on Amazon’s digital labor market, Mechanical Turk in which I will present on the relationship between the cultural history of human machine assemblages and the emerging networked subjectivities.
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History of Automata
I am co-teaching a freshman seminar with Prof. Stefan Tanaka this quarter; History of Automata in the Non-West. Here is an excerpt from the syllabus:
We are increasingly confronted with forms of automation today, but automata have a long and diverse history. This seminar will survey automata and robots from primarily Mesopotamia, Egypt and Asia, Second, [...]
