<nettime> Carrier-Bag.net: Three new texts

[Francis Hunger via nettime-l <nettime-l@lists.nettime.org>]

Dear nettime,

our online-journal carrier-bag.net publishes critical analysis around 
the newest developments in the tech and art field and just published 
three exciting new texts:

Vectofascim
Gregory Chatonsky coined the term vectofascism for a political 
development that transforms classic mechanisms of fascism (the cult of 
the leader, the suppression of truth, the construction of an enemy) into 
the high-dimensional latent spaces of AI models. He examines the 
economics of lies, according to which it is easier to produce a lie than 
to refute it. As a counter-strategy, he drafts a common awareness of the 
existential threat to human life posed by the ecological catastrophe.
https://carrier-bag.net/vectofascism-part-1-vectoaesthetics/

Vibe coding the future
In an impressive analysis, Simon Denny traces how influential AI 
technology companies deliberately take up the modernist imagery and 
rhetoric of Italian Futurism in order to culturally anchor a new 
militaristic technology policy. In his artistic practice, Denny combines 
plotter techniques, AI-generated image models, and the aesthetics of 
historical Futurism, making these entanglements of technology, art, and 
militarization visible and critically negotiable.
https://carrier-bag.net/vibe-coding-the-future/

Prompted Monads
Starting from Munich's Akademiestraße as a symbolic intersection of AI 
research at LMU, generative media art at the Kunstakademie, and Bertold 
Brecht's literary legacy, the text by art historian Boris Čučković 
Berger shows how artistic practice can make political responsibility 
visible, which systematically disappears in totalizing AI narratives. He 
proposes to study AI not as a comprehensive totalization, but as a 
monad. The concept of the monad reflects social and technical conditions 
in a fractured way, without providing a direct overview of the whole.
https://carrier-bag.net/prompted-monads-art-ai-and-the-fantasy-of-totality/

If need for discussion of these texts arises, Nettime would be an 
excellent place for it.

<https://carrier-bag.net/prompted-monads-art-ai-and-the-fantasy-of-totality/>Hito 
and Francis
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