Robot Review of Books
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The Robot Review of Books is an AI ‘magazine’ consisting of short computational media essays that are typically structured as book reviews.
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Contents
#2 Atlas of AI by Kate Crawford
Crawford’s 'seminal' book is a classic example of a work that emphasizes how media is ‘made from natural resources' while leaving its own media-materiality masked.
References
RRB #1 Bruce Schneier, ‘A Robot the Size of the World’, Schneier on Security, December 15, 2023.
RRB #2 Kate Crawford, Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2021).
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Epigraph
‘Each time a technical threshold is crossed, observers have the sense that technology is getting the upper hand, and each time, it turns out that the new technology opens new creative possibilities.’
Vilém Flusser
‘Every artist has to find his format … The format, whatever it is, is eminently historical, and as such it only works once.’
César Aira
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