(re)programming: Infrastructure
<p><strong>An Alternative Earth</strong></p> <p>Benjamin Bratton is an American Philosopher of Technology, known for his work spanning social theory, computer science, design, AI, and for his writing on the geopolitical implications of what he terms “planetary scale computation.” In the conversation with Marta Peirano, he explores the main issues raised in <em>The Terraforming</em> and <em>The New Normal</em>, the speculative urbanism think tanks that have extensively explored alternative future trajectories for cities, considering them as planetary technologies.</p> <p>To reorient and remobilise already existing technologies regimes and processes for purposes that are for the very long term and to preserve life on Earth, a renewed Copernican turn is necessary in theory and in practice: a technologically mediated departure from anthropocentric and individual perspectives.</p>
Host: Marta Peirano
Guest: Benjamin H. Bratton, Marko Bauer, Miloš Kosec, Miha Turšič
Editing, Audio Mix & Musician: Gašper Torkar
Producer: Janez Fakin Janša, Marcela Okretič
Project Coordinator: Sonja Grdina
Aksioma Institute for Contemporary Art
Part of: Tactics&Practice [podcast]