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  • Book part
    The Paranoid Machine: Five Theses on Digital Cultures
    Apprich, Clemens (2020)
    In the following article I want to propose the idea of a paranoid machine, in order to reflect on some of today’s developments in digital cultures. Starting from the assumption that we experience a shift from mass media to social media, I will show how paranoia can provide a diagnostic tool to analyze such a transformation. Paranoia as a method helps to shed light on the epistemological, technological, ethical, political, and aesthetical implications of a (post-)digital world. The paranoid machine exposes hidden assumptions in computer code and calls for intervention in the narcissist and homophilic disposition of digital cultures.
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    Biopolitical Inteventions in the urban Data Space
    Apprich, Clemens (2012)
  • Review
    The Network Dynamics of Movements
    Apprich, Clemens (2014) , S. 1-4
    Review of: Rodrigo Nunes, Organisation of the Organisationless. Collective Action After Networks. London, Lüneburg: Mute & Post Media Lab 2014
  • Book part
    Introduction
    Apprich, Clemens (2018)
  • Miscellany
    Provocative Alloys: A Post-Media Anthology
    Apprich, Clemens; Slater, Josephine Berry; Iles, Anthony; Schultz, Oliver Lerone (2013)
    Félix Guattari’s visionary term ‘post-media’, coined in 1990, heralded a break with mass media’s production of conformity and the dawn of a new age of media from below. Understanding how digital convergence was remaking television, film, radio, print and telecommunications into new, hybrid forms, he advocated the production of ‘enunciative assemblages’ that break with the manufacture of normative subjectivities. In this anthology, historical texts are brought together with newly commissioned ones to explore the shifting ideas, speculative horizons and practices associated with post-media. In particular, the book seeks to explore what post-media practice might be in light of the commodification and homogenisation of digital networks in the age of Web 2.0, e-shopping and mass surveillance.
  • Miscellany
    Plants, Androids and Operators - A Post-Media Handbook
    Apprich, Clemens; Slater, Josephine Berry; Iles, Anthony; Schultz, Oliver Lerone (2014)
    This book documents the first life-cycle of the Post-Media Lab (2011-2014). Taking up Fèlix Guattari’s challenge, the Lab aimed to combine social and media practices into collective assemblages of enunciation in order to confront social monoformity. Here we draw together some key essays, images and art projects by the Lab’s participants, as well as a close documentation of its associated events, talks, and exhibitions, to create a vivid portrayal of post-media practice today.
  • Book part
  • Article
    Secret Agents: A Psychoanalytic Critique of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
    Apprich, Clemens (2018) , S. 29-44
    “Good Old-Fashioned Artificial Intelligence” (GOFAI), which was based on a symbolic information-processing model of the mind, has been superseded by neural-network models to describe and create intelligence. Rather than a symbolic representation of the world, the idea is to mimic the structure of the brain in electronic form, whereby artificial neurons draw their own connections during a self-learning process. Critiquing such a brain physiological model, the following article takes up the idea of a “psychoanalysis of things” and applies it to artificial intelligence and machine learning. This approach may help to reveal some of the hidden layers within the current A. I. debate and hints towards a central mechanism in the psycho-economy of our socio-technological world: The question of “Who speaks?”, central for the analysis of paranoia, becomes paramount at a time, when algorithms, in the form of artificial neural networks, operate more and more as secret agents.
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    Die Maschine auf der Couch. Oder: Was ist schon ‹künstlich› an Künstlicher Intelligenz?
    Apprich, Clemens (2019) , S. 20-28
    Die Ausrichtung künstlicher Intelligenz an der Geschichte der Gehirnforschung, wie sie nicht zuletzt in aktuellen medienwissenschaftlichen Debatten erfolgt, ist zutiefst problematisch. Der in der Neurowissenschaft verankerte Konnektionismus, also die Annahme, dass sich Intelligenz auf ihre hirnphysiologische Verdrahtung reduzieren ließe, erfreut sich mit der Wiederentdeckung künstlich neuronaler Netzwerke großer Beliebtheit. Der Artikel folgt den Spuren einer solch kybernetischen Bestimmung von Intelligenz und stellt ihr zwei Fallstudien aus dem Bereich der computerbasierten Psychotherapie (ELIZA und PARRY) gegenüber. Im Zentrum steht dabei die Frage, inwieweit das mechanistische Weltbild des Konnektionismus zu einer biologistisch verkürzten Vorstellung von Intelligenz führt und wie diese Vorstellung durch eine psychoanalytische Kritik aufgebrochen werden kann.
  • Article
    Daten, Wahn, Sinn
    Apprich, Clemens (2017) , S. 54-62
    Der Übergang von Massenmedien zu sozialen Medien führte in den letzten Jahren zur Diskussion um einen «decline of symbolic efficiency» (Jodi Dean). Allerdings bleibt die Frage offen, ob es sich hier um einen unumkehrbaren Niedergang, oder aber um eine notwendige Begleiterscheinung in der Konstitution einer neuen symbolischen Ordnung handelt. So werden heute Informationen aus einem immer größer werdenden Datenstrom gefiltert, wobei die hierfür benötigten Algorithmen weitgehend versteckt bleiben. Der für die Datenfilterung zentrale Mechanismus des algorithmischen Ein- und Ausschlusses soll in diesem Beitrag mithilfe einer psychoanalytisch informierten Medientheorie untersucht werden, um nach dem Sinn hinter unserer «high-tech paranoia» (Fredric Jameson) zu fragen.