Federico VisiJust finished reading Ways of Being by @jamesbridle Very inspiring book dealing with profound and diverse themes such as more-than-human intelligence and agency, inter-species solidarity, cybernetics, old and new politics, the importance of randomness, non-conventional computing, the internet of animals, and more. Some favourite quotes: 👇
“Technological processes like artificial intelligence won’t build a better world by themselves, just as they tell us nothing useful about general intelligence. What they can do is to lay bare the real workings of the moral and more-than-human landscape we find ourselves in, and to inspire us to create better worlds together.”
“The world is a computer made out of crabs, infinitely entangled at every level, and singing, full-throated, the song of its own becoming.”