[NECROLECTURE] The Excarnated Angel: On AI and the Impossibility of Touch

Salesforce Child is our favorite artist.More here and on her instagram @salesforcechild.We're on TOUR see us:NY Sat 3/7: https://luma.com/k3ffx3zeYALE Sun 3/8: https://exocapitalismthedatacentr.rsvpify.comMIT Mon 3/9: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf4Jh4UAS4ZehWgZWHhlEWyMZNBvzcML-vWdB ...

We're joined by Laura Tripaldi: material scientist, writer, and researcher at the Center for AI and Culture at NYU Shanghai. You probably know her from Parallel Minds: Discovering the Intelligence of Materials (Urbanomic, 2022), an essay in book form that became a phenomenon in theory and art ci ...

Molly Taft, Senior Writer at Wired, joins us to talk datacenters, AI, US power infrastructure, and big energy. You've almost definitely read her work, especially if you live in the US. This episode absolutely ROCKS and is maybe the most grounded and realistic assessment of the role that all of t ...