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Uncomputable One

Approach, idno: uncomputable

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About:

This approach hosts informal study and research cycles on technologies surrounding European border and migration regimes. Some of its traces will be published here as fabulations. The 'computational' prefixes practice that relates to computers, their material foundations, and the logistics they produce; Luciana Parisi and Ferreira da Silva locate technologies -along with their critics- as part of Western cosmogeny. Against this backdrop, the fabulations interweave political, practical and historical fragments of computational scenarios and bring them into relation by applying analytical thought on innovation and containment. The textual collages concern relations and non-relations between abstractive computational processes and lived experiences as they are expressed through mundane details.

Uncomputable
One
How computer science produces apolitical scenarios and subjects
How computer science produces anti-political scenarios and subjects
How computer practice produces apolitical scenarios and subjects
How computer practice produces anti-political scenarios and subjects
by human and non-human case studies
asking

how to appropriate existing technological artefacts?
→ input → white black box → output →
← feedback ←

how to inverse future technological universes?
← ← consequence → →
((() ← → )((( →|← )) ((← →))) → ← ()()(

The applied study and research cycles
cover cybernetic universals and self-referential systems with/in
innovation and containment projects    (*
from inside the box    (**
and by example.

The focus is on technologies related to European containment regimes: technologies enforcing and prohibiting the movement of people. Political and poetical thought is superimposed over particular computational scenarios and the (scarce) information that is publicly available. The proposed collage-making is a daily and iterative exercise in dealing with abstract and abstractive technologies.

*)    R. Benjamin, a scholar on science, technology and society, examines the relationality of innovation and containment; 'who and what is fixed in place, corralled and coerced, so others are free to fabricate the future?'. The 'carceral [...] extends well beyond the domain of policing, to include forms of containment that make innovation possible'.
**)    The case studies are punctual and informal deep dives into the 'gray' and obfuscated zones of technologies (M. Fuller and A. Goffey) –their anticipation captured by PowerPoint slides, their making-of documented in Word documents, and made operational by programming code.