In a recent talk for Stanford’s Digital Aesthetics Workshop, I suggested Quentin Meillassoux’s concept of the arche-fossil may provide a powerful tool for mediating between the microscopic scale of computational processes, the mesoscopic scale of everyday ‘human’ sensing, and the macroscopic scale at which geological processes like climate change unfold. The arche-fossil helps us address…

On January 30 @ 5:30 Pacific Time I will be giving a talk at Stanford’s Digital Aesthetics Workshop on Karl Marx, the history of neural nets, and contemporary art practices. The talk will also be available online. Zoom link: http://tinyurl.com/s8248e2e

My article “The Extinction Image” is out in the latest issue of Cultural Politics. This essay explores the artist Gregory Chatonsky’s development of a new type of image—the extinction image. Emerging as a by-product of new technologies such as deep learning and neural nets, this nonoperative image is typified by a painstaking attempt to come…