Divinatory Chicanery

30/05/2024 Esoteric AI - AIxD
Institute of Diagram Studies

background: 3D astrology

AI is neither artificial nor intelligent.

Kate Crawford in the Observer 2021
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/jun/06/microsofts-kate-crawford-ai-is-neither-artificial-nor-intelligent

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David Gray Widder on Mastodon

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  • media archaeology
  • operative images
  • vectoral politics

Chicanery

Just as Astrological Forecasts makes its readers in the image of its own pseudo-rationality, big data makes its prosumers in the image of its pseudo-rationality.

James, R. (2015) ‘Cloudy Logic’, The New Inquiry. Available at: https://thenewinquiry.com/cloudy-logic/.

divination: procedures by which human beings attempt to access knowledge of the unknown.

Ramey, J. (2016) Politics of divination: Neoliberal endgame and the religion of contingency. London, UK: Rowman & Littlefield International (Reinventing critical theory).

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artful play of semblances

Cornelius, G. (2016) ‘Chicane: Double-Thinking and Divination among the Witch-Doctors’, in Curry, P. (ed.) Divination; Perspectives for a New Millennium. Routledge.

Chicane characteristics

  • double thinking
  • elements/tricks within symbolic and divinatory performance
  • may involve props/objects
  • game of interpretation

sincere vs. insincere chicanery

Ramey, J. (2016) Politics of divination: Neoliberal endgame and the religion of contingency. London, UK: Rowman & Littlefield International (Reinventing critical theory).

data processing pipeline

O’Neil, C. and Schutt, R. (2013) Doing Data Science. Sebastopol, CA,USA: O’Reilly Media, Inc. (Straight Talk from the Frontline).

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Design Chicanery

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https://x.com/daniel_eckler/status/1578038510761791488

Projects

almanac.computer

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Cosmic Commodity Charts - https://almanac.computer

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Crisis Proximity Index

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Electional Astrology Calendars

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Cosmic Commodity Charts Jupyter notebook - https://almanac.computer

Chicane Alignment Charts

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Alignment charts: Meme as … method?

Lawful Neutral Chaotic
Good Lawful Good Neutral Good Chaotic Good
Neutral Lawful Neutral True Neutral Chaotic Neutral
Evil Lawful Evil Neutral Evil Chaotic Evil
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Bastian, M., Heymann, S. and Jacomy, M. (2009) ‘Gephi: An open source software for exploring and manipulating networks’, in International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media. Available at: http://www.aaai.org/ocs/index.php/ICWSM/09/paper/view/154.

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Luddite Chicanery

Starting from the standpoint of the commons is a form of thinking and acting together that directly counters AI solutionism.

McQuillan, D. (2022) Resisting AI. Bristol, UK: Bristol University Press.

Nightshade

Shan, S. et al. (2024) ‘Nightshade: Prompt-Specific Poisoning Attacks on Text-to-Image Generative Models’, in Proceedings of the 45th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy. Oakland. Available at: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Nightshade%3A-Prompt-Specific-Poisoning-Attacks-on-Shan-Ding/f1d7b25937ce014d3173e76f43507872300917f2.

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Sigil Séance Against Space Billionaires

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collaboration with Lucile Olympe Haute

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Jusatsu Kito Sodan (photo: Mitsutoshi Hanaga Estate)

Hopfner, J. (2020) ‘Power of the Powerless; On ritual, protest and the art of self-defence’, Dark Mountain. Available at: https://dark-mountain.net/power-of-the-powerless/.

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