Idiotic Code: Nick Srnicek, Ryan Maguire
Presentation by Nick Srnicek, remote live performance Ryan Maguire
Sunday 18 October 2015, from 4 PM
W139, Warmoesstraat 139, 1012 JB, Amsterdam
4 PM
Demand Full Automation / Demand Universal Basic Income / Demand the Future are the three calls-to-action formulated in Nick Srnicek & Alex William's new book Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World without Work. Srnicek's presentation discusses questions of work, living standards and the reality of a possible future beyond biological and environmental constraints. He proposes ways of how to think and enact a social politics in a technologically complex modernity.
Nick Srnicek
is a political theorist. Together with Alex Williams he is author of the before mentioned Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World without Work (Verso, forthcoming) and #ACCELERATE MANIFESTO for an Accelerationist Politics (2013).
- Dinner will be served at 7 PM, costs € 5,- and reservation is required via idiotic@future-ruins.org. -
8 PM
Ryan Maguire will talk about his research on MP3 CODEC and perform an audiovisual piece.
First published in 1993, the MP3 codec implements a lossy compression algorithm based on a perceptual model of human hearing. Listening tests, primarily designed by and for Western-European men, and using the music they liked, were used to refine the encoder. These tests determined which sounds were perceptually important and which could be erased or altered, ostensibly without being noticed.
Ryan Maguire
listens/writes to/for people/computers. He is currently a PhD student in Composition and Computer Technologies on the University of Virginia.
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