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I will conclude this portion of the thread with a key point Benjamin Bratton makes about #AI non-grief: "There are ‘non-grief’ ways of thinking through a philosophy of artificialized intelligence that are neither optimistic nor pessimistic, utopian nor dystopian."
December 3, 2025 at 2:45 PM
I will conclude this portion of the thread with a key point Benjamin Bratton makes about #AI non-grief: "There are ‘non-grief’ ways of thinking through a philosophy of artificialized intelligence that are neither optimistic nor pessimistic, utopian nor dystopian."
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“Benjamin H Bratton, an AI expert at the University of California, San Diego, welcomed the initiative as a move towards the “diffusion” of the technology.
“It is less important ‘whose’ AI people have access to than they have universal access at all,” Bratton told Al Jazeera.”
“Benjamin H Bratton, an AI expert at the University of California, San Diego, welcomed the initiative as a move towards the “diffusion” of the technology.
“It is less important ‘whose’ AI people have access to than they have universal access at all,” Bratton told Al Jazeera.”
December 2, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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“Benjamin H Bratton, an AI expert at the University of California, San Diego, welcomed the initiative as a move towards the “diffusion” of the technology.
“It is less important ‘whose’ AI people have access to than they have universal access at all,” Bratton told Al Jazeera.”
“Benjamin H Bratton, an AI expert at the University of California, San Diego, welcomed the initiative as a move towards the “diffusion” of the technology.
“It is less important ‘whose’ AI people have access to than they have universal access at all,” Bratton told Al Jazeera.”
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“La comprensión de la naturaleza como fuente vital, por definición nunca artificial en sí misma, sino más tarde alterada por la cultura, es una noción reaccionaria”
—Benjamin Bratton
—Benjamin Bratton
November 29, 2025 at 10:01 PM
“La comprensión de la naturaleza como fuente vital, por definición nunca artificial en sí misma, sino más tarde alterada por la cultura, es una noción reaccionaria”
—Benjamin Bratton
—Benjamin Bratton
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Benjamin Bratton (The Stack)
November 22, 2025 at 4:33 AM
Benjamin Bratton (The Stack)
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Feed: "NOEMA"
By: Benjamin Bratton on Tuesday, September 30, 2025
By: Benjamin Bratton on Tuesday, September 30, 2025
Is European AI A Lost Cause? Not Necessarily.
If Europe wants to build a new AI Stack it should stop listening to critics who claim to lead the way but only offer resistance.
www.noemamag.com
October 1, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Feed: "NOEMA"
By: Benjamin Bratton on Tuesday, September 30, 2025
By: Benjamin Bratton on Tuesday, September 30, 2025
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"Convincing people that AI is both about to destroy their culture and is also fake does not result in more agency, more universal mediation of collective intelligence, but less."
By Benjamin Bratton in @noemamag.com
www.noemamag.com/is-european-...
By Benjamin Bratton in @noemamag.com
www.noemamag.com/is-european-...
Is European AI A Lost Cause? Not Necessarily. | NOEMA
If Europe wants to build a new AI Stack it should stop listening to critics who claim to lead the way but only offer resistance.
www.noemamag.com
October 2, 2025 at 5:15 PM
"Convincing people that AI is both about to destroy their culture and is also fake does not result in more agency, more universal mediation of collective intelligence, but less."
By Benjamin Bratton in @noemamag.com
www.noemamag.com/is-european-...
By Benjamin Bratton in @noemamag.com
www.noemamag.com/is-european-...
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This year's issue includes:
- Essays from @blaiseaguera.bsky.social, @kalladomcdowell.bsky.social, Benjamin Bratton, and @saraimari.bsky.social consider how to define and differentiate intelligence, computation, and identity in the face of synthetic minds.
- Essays from @blaiseaguera.bsky.social, @kalladomcdowell.bsky.social, Benjamin Bratton, and @saraimari.bsky.social consider how to define and differentiate intelligence, computation, and identity in the face of synthetic minds.
November 19, 2025 at 7:07 PM
This year's issue includes:
- Essays from @blaiseaguera.bsky.social, @kalladomcdowell.bsky.social, Benjamin Bratton, and @saraimari.bsky.social consider how to define and differentiate intelligence, computation, and identity in the face of synthetic minds.
- Essays from @blaiseaguera.bsky.social, @kalladomcdowell.bsky.social, Benjamin Bratton, and @saraimari.bsky.social consider how to define and differentiate intelligence, computation, and identity in the face of synthetic minds.
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“The Earth has very recently evolved a smart exoskeleton,” posits Benjamin Bratton in an essay about what he terms “planetary sapience.”
October 17, 2025 at 4:27 PM
“The Earth has very recently evolved a smart exoskeleton,” posits Benjamin Bratton in an essay about what he terms “planetary sapience.”
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1/4 Benjamin Bratton & Nirit Weiss-Blatt in Noema—a “philanthropic” tax break turned tech PR. Their “AI is…” chart pretends to map the extremes of AI discourse, but it’s really a move to manage it
#AI
#AI
October 23, 2025 at 8:33 PM
1/4 Benjamin Bratton & Nirit Weiss-Blatt in Noema—a “philanthropic” tax break turned tech PR. Their “AI is…” chart pretends to map the extremes of AI discourse, but it’s really a move to manage it
#AI
#AI
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“As infrastructure, a platform’s regularity is often guaranteed less by laws than by technical protocols, and this is one of several ways that the sovereign decision is built into the platform’s interfacial partitions and surfaces.”
– Benjamin Bratton, The Stack
– Benjamin Bratton, The Stack
October 9, 2025 at 4:40 PM
“As infrastructure, a platform’s regularity is often guaranteed less by laws than by technical protocols, and this is one of several ways that the sovereign decision is built into the platform’s interfacial partitions and surfaces.”
– Benjamin Bratton, The Stack
– Benjamin Bratton, The Stack
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i wonder what benjamin bratton thinks about the exocapitalism book. i was gonna tweet about it but he follows me on twitter and i might be in one of his classes next term at UCSD so i'm kinda scared to write about it there lmao
its ya boi
its ya boi
October 11, 2025 at 8:38 PM
i wonder what benjamin bratton thinks about the exocapitalism book. i was gonna tweet about it but he follows me on twitter and i might be in one of his classes next term at UCSD so i'm kinda scared to write about it there lmao
its ya boi
its ya boi
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Billionaire-owned “philosopher” Benjamin Bratton finally coming out as full technofash in this declaration of alliance with JD Vance & a16z — here’s his scathing rejection of those who “stand in the way” of corporate AI agendas nobody wants. www.noemamag.com/is-european-...
Is European AI A Lost Cause? Not Necessarily. | NOEMA
If Europe wants to build a new AI Stack it should stop listening to critics who claim to lead the way but only offer resistance.
www.noemamag.com
October 4, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Billionaire-owned “philosopher” Benjamin Bratton finally coming out as full technofash in this declaration of alliance with JD Vance & a16z — here’s his scathing rejection of those who “stand in the way” of corporate AI agendas nobody wants. www.noemamag.com/is-european-...
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Apparently it’s very hard for Benjamin Bratton to understand that people resist tech because they *do not want the tech.* People do not embrace the tech he wants just because he once used 3,000 pages to vaguely explain what infrastructure is.
October 4, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Apparently it’s very hard for Benjamin Bratton to understand that people resist tech because they *do not want the tech.* People do not embrace the tech he wants just because he once used 3,000 pages to vaguely explain what infrastructure is.
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“Today the EU has AI regulation but not much AI to regulate, leaving European nations more dependent on U.S. & Chinese platforms.
This is what backfiring looks like.”
—Benjamin Bratton
#europe #ai #airegulation
This is what backfiring looks like.”
—Benjamin Bratton
#europe #ai #airegulation
Is European AI A Lost Cause? Not Necessarily. | NOEMA
If Europe wants to build a new AI Stack it should stop listening to critics who claim to lead the way but only offer resistance.
www.noemamag.com
September 30, 2025 at 7:53 PM
“Today the EU has AI regulation but not much AI to regulate, leaving European nations more dependent on U.S. & Chinese platforms.
This is what backfiring looks like.”
—Benjamin Bratton
#europe #ai #airegulation
This is what backfiring looks like.”
—Benjamin Bratton
#europe #ai #airegulation
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1/2 Elon Musk and Benjamin Bratton represent two sides of the same hollow game: using abstract philosophy and spectacle to legitimize techno-capitalist fantasies. Musk wraps brute ambition in shallow ideas; Bratton wraps shallow ideas in grand systems.
May 13, 2025 at 6:44 PM
1/2 Elon Musk and Benjamin Bratton represent two sides of the same hollow game: using abstract philosophy and spectacle to legitimize techno-capitalist fantasies. Musk wraps brute ambition in shallow ideas; Bratton wraps shallow ideas in grand systems.
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Benjamin Bratton doesn’t critique tech—he aestheticizes it. His abstract systems dress power in theory, making planetary computation look inevitable, even beautiful. It feels like philosophy, but acts like branding.
Benjamin Bratton doesn’t critique tech—he aestheticizes it. His abstract systems dress power in theory, making planetary computation look inevitable, even beautiful. It feels like philosophy, but acts like branding.
May 13, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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Benjamin Bratton doesn’t critique tech—he aestheticizes it. His abstract systems dress power in theory, making planetary computation look inevitable, even beautiful. It feels like philosophy, but acts like branding.
Benjamin Bratton doesn’t critique tech—he aestheticizes it. His abstract systems dress power in theory, making planetary computation look inevitable, even beautiful. It feels like philosophy, but acts like branding.
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I mean—it’s despicable that public money is being used to fund people like Benjamin Bratton. Academic grift disguised as planetary salvation. We deserve better than glossy PowerPoint cosmology sold as critical theory.
I mean—it’s despicable that public money is being used to fund people like Benjamin Bratton. Academic grift disguised as planetary salvation. We deserve better than glossy PowerPoint cosmology sold as critical theory.
May 13, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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I mean—it’s despicable that public money is being used to fund people like Benjamin Bratton. Academic grift disguised as planetary salvation. We deserve better than glossy PowerPoint cosmology sold as critical theory.
I mean—it’s despicable that public money is being used to fund people like Benjamin Bratton. Academic grift disguised as planetary salvation. We deserve better than glossy PowerPoint cosmology sold as critical theory.
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"How Philosophy Failed the Pandemic, Or: When Did Agamben Become Alex Jones?" by Benjamin Bratton (2021)
"The affirmation or negation of what the human is also plays out through what humans can be."
"The affirmation or negation of what the human is also plays out through what humans can be."
May 27, 2025 at 2:23 AM
"How Philosophy Failed the Pandemic, Or: When Did Agamben Become Alex Jones?" by Benjamin Bratton (2021)
"The affirmation or negation of what the human is also plays out through what humans can be."
"The affirmation or negation of what the human is also plays out through what humans can be."
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Bratton on the Artificiality podcast recently argues that LLMs represent a kind of redistribution of expertise, a transfer of intellectual capital from the global north to the global south- (an inversion of the standard extraction critique) artificialityinstitute.org/benjamin-bra... it’s ya boi
June 14, 2025 at 4:45 AM
Bratton on the Artificiality podcast recently argues that LLMs represent a kind of redistribution of expertise, a transfer of intellectual capital from the global north to the global south- (an inversion of the standard extraction critique) artificialityinstitute.org/benjamin-bra... it’s ya boi
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Our artificial baby language learner (fiwGAN) and its latent space exhibited @berggruen.org in collaboration with Antikythera @metahaven.bsky.social @ninabegus.bsky.social Benjamin Bratton
June 25, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Our artificial baby language learner (fiwGAN) and its latent space exhibited @berggruen.org in collaboration with Antikythera @metahaven.bsky.social @ninabegus.bsky.social Benjamin Bratton
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Architecture is the solidification of social form in the built environment.
It is the structure of collective organization…
Language is the architecture within which we refer to systems.
Benjamin H. Bratton
Pornotopias [ @litterariaprag.bsky.social ]
litteraria.ff.cuni.cz/books/pornot...
It is the structure of collective organization…
Language is the architecture within which we refer to systems.
Benjamin H. Bratton
Pornotopias [ @litterariaprag.bsky.social ]
litteraria.ff.cuni.cz/books/pornot...
LITTERARIA PRAGENSIA
litteraria.ff.cuni.cz
July 21, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Architecture is the solidification of social form in the built environment.
It is the structure of collective organization…
Language is the architecture within which we refer to systems.
Benjamin H. Bratton
Pornotopias [ @litterariaprag.bsky.social ]
litteraria.ff.cuni.cz/books/pornot...
It is the structure of collective organization…
Language is the architecture within which we refer to systems.
Benjamin H. Bratton
Pornotopias [ @litterariaprag.bsky.social ]
litteraria.ff.cuni.cz/books/pornot...
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How We Discovered Our Own Extinction with Thomas Moynihan and Benjamin Bratton.
For most of human history, the end of the world was a divine promise, inevitable and liberating for the holy alone. But the invention of extinction changed that.
Futurology Pod now available on all podcast platforms.
For most of human history, the end of the world was a divine promise, inevitable and liberating for the holy alone. But the invention of extinction changed that.
Futurology Pod now available on all podcast platforms.
July 29, 2025 at 7:13 PM
How We Discovered Our Own Extinction with Thomas Moynihan and Benjamin Bratton.
For most of human history, the end of the world was a divine promise, inevitable and liberating for the holy alone. But the invention of extinction changed that.
Futurology Pod now available on all podcast platforms.
For most of human history, the end of the world was a divine promise, inevitable and liberating for the holy alone. But the invention of extinction changed that.
Futurology Pod now available on all podcast platforms.
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In this episode, philosopher Thomas Moynihan joins Benjamin Bratton to trace the history of a shift in thinking: that the future isn’t guaranteed.
Futurology Pod now available on all podcast platforms.
#berggrueninstitute
#futurologypod
Futurology Pod now available on all podcast platforms.
#berggrueninstitute
#futurologypod
July 30, 2025 at 2:19 PM
In this episode, philosopher Thomas Moynihan joins Benjamin Bratton to trace the history of a shift in thinking: that the future isn’t guaranteed.
Futurology Pod now available on all podcast platforms.
#berggrueninstitute
#futurologypod
Futurology Pod now available on all podcast platforms.
#berggrueninstitute
#futurologypod
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![a screenshot of the wikipedia page for early movie "L'Arrivée d'un train en gare de La Ciotat".
The page reads : "Contemporary reaction :
The film is associated with a well-known rumor in the world of cinema. The story goes that when the film was first shown, the audience was so overwhelmed by the moving image of a life-sized train coming directly at them that people screamed and ran to the back of the room. Hellmuth Karasek in the German magazine Der Spiegel wrote that the film "had a particularly lasting impact; yes, it caused fear, terror, even panic".[5] Martin Loiperdinger notes that there are no contemporary reports of audiences panicking at the sight, which likely would have caused injuries in the crowded exhibition rooms of the era and probably would have received coverage in local newspapers.[2] Others such as theorist Benjamin H. Bratton have speculated that the alleged reaction may have been caused by the projection being mistaken for a camera obscura by the audience, which at the time would have been the only other technique to produce a naturalistic moving image."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:r7o7vtdni56oomq2hlzl22o7/bafkreib4xt6ibuuudikyz6je4thn7zkyzzc2qjdyyoimamca33t3q7i6ru@jpeg)
August 1, 2025 at 2:54 PM