AI (as-in)AI (comme-dans)AI (als-in)

Affective Infrastructures
but also
Atomized Intellligences
Artificial Indexes
Awkward Inscriptions
Agnostic Inventions
Alluring & Industrious
Attachment Insights

This weft is an ongoing attempt to index some differences and overlappings between critique, affections and sovereignity as relational conditions within technoecologies.

A wefted problematisation of the notion of technological sovereignity, in dialog with Calafou’s published volumes on the topic.

Technological Sovereignity in Calafou’s publications

https://calafou.org/ca/content/dossier-soberan%C3%ADa-tecnol%C3%B3gica
Vol 1 (FR+SP) https://www.ritimo.org/La-Souverainete-technologique
Vol 2 (FR+SP+ENG) https://www.ritimo.org/La-Souverainete-Technologique-Volume2

Affects, in terms of Lauren Berlant have to do with the experiences of attachments and the mobilisation of those attachments.

Interview to Lauren Berlant

Is there a possible bringing of such a notion of affect into infrastructural critique?

Software as a critique (organized by MM in Amsterdam)
http://constantvzw.org/site/Software-as-a-Critique.html

Mediations as gestures in roughness

discrimination is an affection of semiotic-material flows (impure and non-innocent…) of sweet taste, nasty smell or sticky texture, among others.
http://media.constantvzw.org/v/cqrrelations/bigdatadiscrimination.html

Jumping scales

Extracted bodies_corporeal grounds

Shadow infrastructures

The yuxtapolitical

Amateurism

Appropriated tech (which adds questions on situatedness and scalability)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appropriate_technology

soft technologies (relationalities, protocols, grey lit, traditions, unspoken norms, path dependencies…etc)

Saioa Olmo’s research process:
https://www.tecnologiasblandas.cc/

infra-

http://i--n--f--r--a.tumblr.com/

Distributed agencies of affective attachments: who/what affects who/what?

Are you being served?
http://areyoubeingserved.constantvzw.org/
Anarchaserver
https://anarchaserver.org/mediawiki/index.php/Main_Page

… semiotic-material conditions of possibility for what places, placed, will place or would place us in common here-now.