THE SMARTNESS MANDATE
Winner of the Society for Science, Literature, and the Arts (SLSA) annual Michelle Kendrick Memorial Book Prize
Just out:
The Planetary Experiment: A History and Theory of Science at Scale in Critical Inquiry
The Geopolitics of Resilience: On the Historical Convergence of Artificial Intelligence, Ecology, and Corporate Strategy in New Media and Society
Books
More 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.
The Planetary Urbanisms exhibition and publication is now available! Merging artistic research and academic commentary to engage the future of urbanism in our present.
My research projects:
Just out:
Podcast:
New Models 88: Orit Halpern on Agentic Imaginaries
Videocast:
Dartmouth College Montgomery Fellowship:
AI, Neo-Liberal Economics and Reactionary Politics
Press:
Clarín Magazine” Orit Halpern: “La educación es tan importante porque ahí es donde formamos y enseñamos a la gente a pensar de otra manera”
Press:
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).
