Blog Report MoneyLab #6: Finance, Automation and Surveillance

By Inte Gloerich, March 13, 2019

By Sebastian Randerath New infrastructures of financial transaction, consumer accounting and high frequency trading shift the relation between human and technological actors. According to these new infrastructures I will divide the session in two perspectives, based on their specific relation of technology and human actors. In the first perspective of the session, infrastructures are explored [...]

Analogy: Between Captchas and Clickworkers

By maxhampshire, January 25, 2017

Analogy is an Amsterdam-based consultancy platform applying the strategies of industry leaders to independent publishing. Their aim is remarkably simple, and admirably straightforward in its presentation: “to adopt the strategy of the winner” One of several projects operating out of the PublishingLab (part of the Amsterdam Creative Industries Network), Analogy successfully provide a set of [...]

A Computational Commons: Solidarity Through Automation?

By maxhampshire, January 11, 2017

“In our age, capital is emerging as a form of computation. What about the common?” Matteo Pasquinelli – Capital Thinks Too Political action in the age of algorithmic management doesn’t mean resisting automation – it means working intelligently with it to create a partially automated commons. Investment management firm Bridgewater Associates have tightened the grip [...]

Posts Tagged: Automation

Blog Report MoneyLab #6: Finance, Automation and Surveillance

Analogy: Between Captchas and Clickworkers

A Computational Commons: Solidarity Through Automation?