THE SMARTNESS MANDATE IS OUT!
Winner of the Society for Science, Literature, and the Arts (SLSA) annual Michelle Kendrick Memorial Book Prize
Just out:
in Data Power in Action Urban Data Politics in Times of Crisis
Edited by: Ola Söderström and Ayona Datta
Books
Latest Publications
“Financializing Intelligence: On the Integration of Machines and Markets”, E-flux Architecture, Special Issue On Models, Nick Axel, et.al. eds. March (2023).
“Surplus Data”, w/ Patrick Jagoda, Jeffrey Kirkland, and Leif Weatherby, Critical Inquiry, Volume 48, Number 2, Winter (2022): 1-9.
“Resilient Futures”, Perspecta: The Yale Architecture Journal, Issue 55, January (2023): 101-113.
Just Out:
The Solidarities, A/C Dispatch, Vol. 4 is out.
Solidarities is edited by Dr. Michelle Pfeifer and is part of ‹Against Catastrophe›, a multimodal project I lead.
My research projects:
Just out:
Interview with JORDI PÉREZ COLOMÉ in El País on the Smartness Mandate:
Orit Halpern: “¿Por qué ahora tiene que ser todo ‘inteligente’? ¿Por qué es algo que deseamos?”
Yup, I’m one of the demons described by Oliver Selfridge in his 1959 paper, “Pandemonium”, a seminal work in early object recognition and artificial intelligence (AI).