Research Hub – Random Forest

Key research material sourced externally

Cybernetics/Control:

Deleuze, Gilles. 1992. ‘Postscript on the Societies of Control’. October 59: 3–7.

Galison, Peter. 1994. ‘The Ontology of the Enemy: Norbert Wiener and the Cybernetic Vision’. Critical Inquiry 21 (1): 228. doi:10.1086/448747.

Galloway, A. R. 2014. ‘The Cybernetic Hypothesis’. Differences 25 (1): 107–131. doi:10.1215/10407391-2420021.

Halpern, Orit. 2012. ‘Cybernetic Sense’. Interdisciplinary Science Reviews 37 (3): 218-

doi:10.1179/0308018812Z.00000000018.

Escobar, Arturo. 2012. ‘Notes on the Ontology of Design’. In Sawyer Seminar, Indigenous Cosmopolitics: Dialogues about the Reconstitution of Worlds, Organized by Marisol de La Cadena and Mario Blaser, October. http://sawyerseminar.ucdavis.edu/files/2012/12/ESCOBAR_Notes-on-the-Ontology-of-Design-Parts-I-II-_-III.pdf

Halpern, Orit. 2014a. Beautiful Data: A History of Vision and Reason Since 1945 Experimental Futures. Durham: Duke University Press.

Halpern, Orit. 2014b. ‘Cybernetic Rationality’. Distinktion: Scandinavian Journal of Social Theory. 15 (2): 223-238. doi:10.1080/1600910X.2014.923320

Martin, Reinhold. 1998. ‘The Organizational Complex: Cybernetics, Space, Discourse’. Assemblage, 103–127.

Medina, Eden. 2006. ‘Designing Freedom, Regulating a Nation: Socialist Cybernetics in Allende’s Chile’ Journal of Latin American Studies 38 (03): 571. doi:10.1017/S0022216X06001179.

Pickering, Andrew. 2010. The Cybernetic Brain Sketches of Another Future. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Tiqqun. 2001. ‘Notes on the Cybernetic Hypothesis’. https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/tiqqun-the-cybernetic-hypothesis

CYBERNETICS & “The Will of the People” by Stafford Beer, Javier Livas

‘Cybernetics: Or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine’, Norbert Wiener

‘Capitalist Sorcery: Breaking the Spell’, Pignarre, Philippe, Isabelle Stengers, and Andrew Goffey. 2011.

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

Affect Theory:

Matthew de Kersaint Giraudeau and Andrea Francke discussing Eve Kosofky Sedgewick’s Paranoid Reading and Reparative Reading in the context of Andrea’s work into Post-truth:

http://badvibesclub.co.uk/?powerpress_pinw=628-podcast (online listening) http://media.blubrry.com/the_bad_vibes_club/s/badvibesclub.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/Andrea-and-Matt_Paranoia.mp3 (download)

‘What are Affects?’ by Silvan Tomkins: https://arena-attachments.s3.amazonaws.com/1069550/5b38576e5556b93cccb7376c04c355a1.pdf?1497201235

Eve Kosofky Sedgewick, Excerpts from ‘Paranoid reading and reparative reading, or, you’re so paranoid, you probably think this essay is about you’ https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yY1dRoAE4BeQQuI20kP9QKaLBLt52H4lwCvllaIhvVU/edit?usp=sharing

Matthew de Kersaint Giraudeau and Andrea Francke discussing Eve Kosofky Sedgewick’s Paranoid Reading and Reparative Reading in the context of Andrea’s work into Post-truth:
http://badvibesclub.co.uk/?powerpress_pinw=628-podcast (online listening)
http://media.blubrry.com/the_bad_vibes_club/s/badvibesclub.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/Andrea-and-Matt_Paranoia.mp3 (download)’What are Affects?’ by Silvan Tomkins: https://arena-attachments.s3.amazonaws.com/1069550/5b38576e5556b93cccb7376c04c355a1.pdf?1497201235

Eve Kosofky Sedgewick, Excerpts from ‘Paranoid reading and reparative reading, or, you’re so paranoid, you probably think this essay is about you’
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yY1dRoAE4BeQQuI20kP9QKaLBLt52H4lwCvllaIhvVU/edit?usp=sharing

Symposium on Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s essay “Paranoid Reading, Reparative Reading” held at the University of York, UK on February 14, 2017. Participants include: Angus Brown, Jason Edwards, Kathryn R. Kent, Ben Nichols:

‘The Politics of Affect’, Brian Massumi, 2015

Trolling:

‘This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things: Mapping the Relationship between Online Trolling and Mainstream Culture (MIT Press)’, Whitney Phillips

Conspiracy:

Daniel Keller: new.New Festival 2016: ‘From the Sovereign Individual to the Targeted Individual’

Daniel Keller, The Basilisk –

The Art of the conspiracy theory, Sarah Perry – https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2016/10/06/the-art-of-the-conspiracy-theory/#more-5637

Myth making:

‘Synchromysticism’ https://www.johnlebon.com/articles/an-introduction-to-synchromysticism/

Politics/Ideology:

‘Ideology: An Introduction’, Terry Eagleton, 1991 https://archive.org/stream/TerryEagleton-IdeologyAnIntroduction/TerryEagleton-Ideology-AnIntroduction_djvu.txt

‘Suicide of the West’, by James Burnham

Fuchs, Christian 2018. Digital Demagogue: Authoritarian Capitalism in the Age of Trump and Twitter. London Pluto Press.

Fuchs, Christian 2018. Nationalism 2.0: The Making of Brexit on Social Media. London Pluto Press

‘Branding the Dream: Barack Obama, Donald Trump, and the Meanings of America’ (A Series of Lecture-

Performances): http://ludlow38.org/events/branding-the-dream/

‘Combined and Uneven Apocalypse’, Evan Calder Williams

Neoreaction / Alt right:

‘Kill All Normies’, Angela Nagle

https://vincentgarton.com/

https://www.viewpointmag.com/2017/03/28/the-darkness-at-the-end-of-the-tunnel-artificial-intelligence-andneoreaction/

http://www.renegadetribune.com/order-chaos-magic-dark-roots-alt-right/

http://www.metamute.org/editorial/articles/no-joke-untangling-dna-code-alt-right-comedy

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jun/04/forget-far-right-populism-crypto-anarchists-are-thenew-masters-internet-politics

Yuk Hui, ‘On the Unhappy Consciousness of Neoreactionaries’

https://www.e-flux.com/journal/81/125815/on-the-unhappy-consciousness-of-neoreactionaries/

http://archive.is/vGrv3

Tara Isabella Burton, ‘Apocalypse Whatever’, http://reallifemag.com/apocalypse-whatever/

‘Rules for the Alt-Right Radicals’, https://northernreaction.wordpress.com/2016/09/17/rules-for-alt-rightradicals/

https://yuki.la/pol/111643756

‘What is the artistic movement attached to the alt-right, or rather what artistic style should be applied to the

alt-right in order to give the movement a greater sense of cohesiveness and consistency in a visual sense?’

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https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DIeovVhwprNb9z4x9Pxiyr84nhouf3mxz3uzDOlARdo/edit#

https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5554b030e4b001ab96842f2d/t/5807f2aae58c62d480121bbd/1476915889886/Intermediate+Meme+Magic+-+Saint+Obamas+Momjeans.pdf

‘A Gentle Introduction to Unqualified Reservations (part 1)’, http://unqualifiedreservations.blogspot.co.uk/2009/01/gentle-introduction-to-unqualified.html

Nick Land texts: http://www.thedarkenlightenment.com/the-dark-enlightenment-by-nick-land/