nathanjurgenson
author, The Social Photo (Verso)
former: Real Life magazine, Theorizing the Web conference, Snap. currently: have no idea
los angeles
- this app asks the users to see the world as a machine does, to not just interact with AI but to develop an AI Vision of your world and your self [learned of it from here: www.phonetime.news/p/i-tried-th...
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View full threadYes of course! Another helpful contribution
- and am going to reread these lol reallifemag.com/topics/vibes/
- pretty much the only good vibe theorizing imo. did you guys read his interview in Effects Journal a couple years back? good (and less punishing) compliment to the longer theory piece, w more about politics, "coherence", and the idea of "grasping" the vibe effects-journal.com/archive/vibe...
- thank you! will read. skipped a lot of the vibes discourse after real life ended lol but realizing now how similar it is to AI stuff
- being pigeonholed by "the algorithm" is here rechristened as "revealing your aura"; implicit in both is a similar promise of liberation from having to be a subject — instead one understands oneself as an object to be processed
- this app asks the users to see the world as a machine does, to not just interact with AI but to develop an AI Vision of your world and your self [learned of it from here: www.phonetime.news/p/i-tried-th...
- the gamification really makes this explicit, where subjectivity is offloaded to scores
- a similar "theory of vibe" if I remember right www.glass-bead.org/article/a-th...
- oh, yes!
- the "vibes" discourse was always similar to machine vision: phenomenology, to see the world as discrete describable objects, using "vibes/aura/energy" as a smokescreen for detailed algorithmic labeling
- "vibes" are like algorithms and machine vision and AI, all trying to grasp the qualities of something to be put in a database. messy human life made more functional. a gamified understanding of the world as hierarchical and winnable
