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March 2020
LA TYRANNIE DES ALGORITHMES
Miguel Benasayag alerts us to the major risk that algorithms pose for our democracies while big data is in the process of deciding the directions of the world. It is on a daily basis that collective life is insidiously "taken over" by machines: surveillance software coupled with cameras, predictive justice, marketing monitoring of our every move on the internet to develop purchasing predictions ... It is not however technophobic that the author denounces the colonization of the living, awar
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May 2020
NAIADE
This photographic projects starts from the need to face a reality that is difficult to accept for a 24 years old girl, a reality made up of hospital races, a continous search for a diagnosis, pains, medicines, physiotherapy, many unaswered questions and continous deterioration. Naiade at the beginning was born as diary of what i was and I am still living and then trasnformed ino a photographic book that uses images instead of words, to exp
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October 2021
Taking a Line for a Walk
Assignments can give instructions, describe an exercise, present a problem, set out rules, propose a game, stimulate a process, or simply throw out questions. Taking a Line for a Walk brings attention to something that is often neglected: the assignment as a pedagogical element and verbal artefact of design education. This book is a compendium of 224 assignments, edited by Nina Paim and coedited by Emilia Bergmark. A reference book for educators, researchers, and students ali
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January 2020
QUANDO MARINA ABRAMOVIĆ MORIRÀ
Belgrade, 1974: Marina Abramović set fire to a monumental five-pointed star, the symbol of the Tito regime, and lay down inside it until she was overcome by the fumes and fell unconscious. Naples, one year later: the artist challenged the public to use any of the objects laid out on a table on her resolutely passive body and one spectator pointed a loaded gun at her throat. New York, 2002: she lived and fasted for twelve day
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