THE SMARTNESS MANDATE IS OUT!

Winner of the Society for Science, Literature, and the Arts (SLSA) annual Michelle Kendrick Memorial Book Prize

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Just out:

Beyond Data and Crisis

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.

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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).

Demon Pandemonium architecture