Slightly obscure question for a colleague: can anyone recommend literature on Benjamin's flaneurism as a research method (especially historically)? (The question is whether ambiance and atmospheres can be described historically)

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Join us in the cool 🧊 gallery space of iMAL, on July 1st 🥵 for the opening of their new exhibition: I am vertical (but I would rather be horizontal)!

Doors open @ 18:30 CEST

With: Cécile Babiole, @coinop29 Peter Beyls, Quentin Destieu + Sylvain Huguet = Collectif Dardex, Sunjoo Lee, Leonard Leyens, Val Macé, @raquelmeyers @navidnavab Garnet Willis, Suzanne Treister, @claire_wii @doriane and @vinciane ❤️

More information: https://www.imal.org/en/events/i-am-vertical-but-i-would-rather-be-horizontal

Co-curated by @imal @320x200 and me.

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It seems to me that GenAI is only one third of what one might call a millenarian coup in the US-American context. It's an important element in a diverse coalition held together by a shared belief in the end-of-times.

One fraction is made up by Christian fundamentalists who are preparing for the second coming of Jesus Christ once Jerusalem is liberated. Mike Huckabee, an evangelical minister and current US ambassador to Israel already sitting in Jerusalem, is one of the most prominent members of this group.

The second fraction is made up of people who see social and ecological collapse, but plan to survive it individually. Their goal is to make as much money as possible, to increase their chances during the apocalypse. Trump and his inner circle are probably the clearest example, but there are many. They are aligned with those who want to build walls and expand the military, so that in the coming negative-sum games, the world ends of the others first.

The third is the GenAI people, who are staring at the moment of "Singularity" as the event that will change everything so fundamentally that we cannot even conceive its consequences.

On a personal level, there is quite a bit of overlap between these groups, but also stark differences and disagreements.

But what unites these three groups is a shared vibe: they really don't care about the future, at least not the future understood from the point-of-view of a modern society that would include most people,

Human Computers is a media archaeology research that aims to unravel the intricate entanglement between computing & capitalism through the prism of labor. @NbYr

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