AFTR (prod. by flowers in narnia)

In this episode, Professor Nick Seaver, Professor Veronica Barassi, and Alex Moltzau discuss the intersection of anthropology and algorithms. What exactly can anthropology bring to the table in understanding them? How can we use anthropological concepts and methods to make sense of algorithms? And how does this research translate into practice?

For show notes, please visit: culanth.org/fieldsights/anthropology-and-algorithms

75. Anthropology and Algorithms

This week we have a special episode for you as part of our inter-season programming - an interview with Matteo Pasquinelli. Of course, we’re still working hard to bring you more roundtable discussions with our wonderful Verso authors in our upcoming fourth series of The Verso Podcast, but until then we hope you’ll enjoy the exciting interim episodes we have in store for you.

Matteo Pasquinelli is an associate professor in Philosophy of Science at the Department of Philosophy and Cultural Heritage at Ca’ Foscari University in Venice. His writing has appeared in AI and Society, e-flux, Multitudes, Radical Philosophy, the South Atlantic Quarterly, and many other places besides. He is the author of several books, including his most recent work, The Eye of the Master: A Social History of Artificial Intelligence - out now with Verso Books (https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/products/735-the-eye-of-the-master).

Matteo sat down with Richard Hames to explore some of the ideas laid out in his latest text - cutting against popular understandings of artificial intelligence that have come to increasingly dominate our cultural imaginaries, our workplaces, our digital lives, and our visions of the future. Pasquinelli argues that whilst many may claim that artificial intelligence imitates biological intelligence, the reality is that AI does not amount to a digital proxy of the neural pathways of individual human beings. Instead, he advances the opinion that AI imitates the intelligence of labor and social relations - framing it as a social and political creature, whose problems demand social and political responses. 

In this interview Matteo talks algorithms, IQ tests, and why AI will ultimately lead to us working more, not less.

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AI, Automation, and Algorithms | Matteo Pasquinelli

Sound Ferry

Blogpost for Code & More:  https://blog.illestpreacha.com/drone-day-2025-soundferry

For Drone Day 2025 (https://droneday.org/, Sound Ferry would act as a ferry transporting these drones to their destinations and as all trips, their paths will vary. Which is represented through the effects made post SonicPi coded composition.

Poem:

Distances may vary
On the Sound Ferry
As some flourish
Even if off beat
While others nourish
By feeding on the sounds
That maintain their ground
Pouring in so deep
To the ocean floor and around

SoundFerry

Club Furies Premiere #1438 

Artist: Orbital 14
Title: Alpha Patterns
Label: Observant
Catalog: OM024
Format: Digital
Genre: Electronic
Style: Techno
Mastering: Paul Mac at Hardgroove Mastering
Artwork: Karthik Vernekar

Release Date: July 2nd. 2025
Support & Buy: https://obsmus.bandcamp.com/album/alpha-patterns

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Alpha Patterns

Algorithms

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CF Premiere: Orbital 14 - Algorithms [Observant]

Hear No Evil is a critique and social commentary wrapped in a synth-laced storm. A dark, melancholic pop track that blends arpeggiated synths, heavy drums, and raw vocals to explore how online algorithms, advertising and dark actors hijack attention and distort truth.

Scrolling, scrolling
Brain rot
Neurosis
A story about something emotive

Inject this crap
Stick on this patch
You're fat
Pay us some money and we’ll fix you

You’re too thin
Ugly as sin 
Damaged, inadequate
Not making nearly enough money

So pay us money and we’ll fix you
Cos you will never be enough
You’re never enough

(Hear no evil, see no evil)

Hear No Evil
See No Evil 
Put my hands on my eyes
Put my hands on my ears
Put my hands on my mind

Hear No Evil
See No Evil
I put my hands on my eyes
Put my hands on my ears
And I feel no fear

It makes no sense at all
So let’s not go there 
Let’s turn away…
So come on let's fly away
To somewhere beautiful and blue

I can’t help it
I’m just human
Won’t you take my fire tonight?

Tell me something
That I’m thinking
You know me
Better than I do…so

Harvesting data, manipulate behaviour,
Who are we really? When you strip it all away?
Authentic self-expression lost in a haze.
What would we think?  If we stripped it all away? 

A mind’s a commodity
Identity suppression
Seeped in ideology
Screen time addiction
Dopamine hit
Tribal mind asphyxiating
Killing all joy and normal maturation

Darkness on the web
Technology-enabled
Cuckoo-ing minds
With covert intentions

Grounds to drop mortars
On our sons and daughters
All in a day’s work
Now to bed with a cocoa

Cos there’s blood on their hands
Then their c*ck's in their hands
Vacant expression whilst pumping out rounds

Headed for the ground 
Like the rest of us
But already rotting 
Just a carcass

Hear No Evil
See No Evil
I put my hands on my eyes
Put my hands on my ears
Put my hands on my mind

Hear No Evil
See No Evil
I put my hands on my eyes
Put my hands on my ears
And I feel no fear

I’m desensitised
This indifference 
I close my eyes
Keep my distance

Compartmentalise
I look away
This indifference is
Is self protection

My eyes wide shut
To manipulation
I’m not sure how 
This all applies to me

Cos I know I that I’m
Not infallible 
And that my mind it is 
Someone else’s prize... so…

It makes no sense at all
So let’s not go there
Let’s turn away…
Come on and fly away
To somewhere beautiful and blue

Hear No Evil
See No Evil
I put my hands on my eyes
Put my hands on my ears
Put my hands on my mind

Hear No Evil
See No Evil
I put my hands on my eyes
Put my hands on my ears
And I feel no fear

2 Aug 35

Hear No Evil

From album 'Paths' (May 2016), Granny Records.

http://www.bjarni-gunnarsson.net/paths

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Ubieties

Nathan Bradshaw - 1 Year On Mix

Limited edition 12" vinyl version ➥ http://www.hhv.de/shop/de/artikel/submerse-algorithms-and-ghosts-303445 | http://www.rushhour.nl/distribution_detailed.php?item=69080 | http://www.cargorecords.co.uk/release/20982 | http://www.crosstalkintl.com/node/39647 | http://www.jetsetrecords.net/SUBMERSE-ALGORITHMS-AND-GHOSTS/p/733004555952

Digital version ➥ http://projectmooncircle.bandcamp.com/album/algorithms-and-ghosts | https://itunes.apple.com/de/album/algorithms-and-ghosts/id611130640 | http://boomkat.com/downloads/667738-submerse-algorithms-and-ghosts | http://www.junodownload.com/products/algorithms-ghosts/2151342-02

This EP is the outcome of a five month spanning transition between warm and bright summerdays to dark and dusky winterdays resulting in a change of moods that accompany this shift from lights, colours and sounds perceived everyday. It is a soundtrack made for commuting between different places in large urban spaces, filled by swarms of people shoaling and funneling across intersections, subway stations and central hubs like corpuscles pulsating in the cities veins, conducted by invisible algorithms in the symbiotic superorganism that is a metropole. 

<i>"I took a lot of inspiration from 3 main points of Tokyo City. There are traditional parks and shrines/temples that really take you away from the high rise buildings and make you feel like you could be in the countryside. Next, there are typical shops, neon lights, offices and general city life, and lastly, there is the red light area which is a great place to see all walks of life, from gangsters, working girls and strange things behind closed doors. I'm fascinated by this place, It seems like another world to me, I'm always drawn to it out of curiosity and the feeling I get while passing though is really inspiring."</i>

The EP also features a collaboration with https://soundcloud.com/sorrowgarage from Birmingham, UK, who has been making a name for himself in the scene since 2010.

Written, produced and mixed by <i>Robert James Orme</i> / https://soundcloud.com/submerse.
Mastered by Sven Friederichs | A&R: Gordon Gieseking & Malte Tarnow.
Original Drawing by Annita Maslov (http://www.annitamaslov.com/). Design by Gordon Gieseking.


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PMC112 - Submerse - Algorithms and Ghosts 12"/EP Snippet

UH JCWONXOICNDLKSFDLKJfukk you ;)

fuckin here's sum lyrics for ye:

alright
yea I just woke up
yea the bass is fuckin blaring
and I'm tearing it up
uh
uh
yeah I'm tearing it up
uh uh
yeah I'm tearing it up

got a mac on the side
and I'm ridin wit it blacked out
i just wanna make the bitches cry
imma sad hound
sad fuck
oh wait I'm the mad duck
I'm that that muthafucka 
make the guys wanna act tough

make em wanna jump jump
jump
jump off a cliff
stupid little cunt
go fuckin die in a ditch

I hate you
you gon lie and you switch
I ain't got no mf time for a bitch 

switch 
switch up 
switch
 switch up the flow
come one come all
welcome to the daffishow

I am a king
I'm a fuckin ringleader
eyes on the speech
never listen to a preacher

liar liar
pants are on fire
shoulda thought twice
when you wore fake designer

I heard I heard
death in the shire
all of my homies r killas for hire

liar liar
hotter than lighter
shoulda thought twice
before you made her eye hurt

I heard I heard
death in the shire
my gang ignite u like gas in a fire

LIAR LIAR

LIAR LIAR [prod. mangust x graden]

Berlin based label and creative collective operating in the left-field sphere of electronic music since 2002.

Podcasts, readings, lectures and events: big ideas and radical discussion from authors and collaborators with Verso Books

Composer and programmer whose recent work involves machine listening, database-driven recomposition, real-time network algorithms, and parametric synthesis.

His music has been presented at ICMC, ICLC, SMC, and xCoAx, and performed at festivals including Tectonics, Sonar, Rewire, and Présences Électroniques. Releases include Cendres, Processes & Potentials, UPICS, and Safn 2006–2009, on labels such as SUPERPANG, 3LEAVES, and Tartaruga. 

He teaches algorithmic composition and computer music at the Institute of Sonology in The Hague. He studied computer science at the University of Reykjavík, composition at CCMIX with Gerard Pape, Trevor Wishart, and Curtis Roads, and completed his master’s at Sonology under Paul Berg, Kees Tazelaar, and Richard Barrett.

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