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  • Technologies of Care and Resistance

    Technologies of Care and Resistance
    2025/11/04
    In this episode of Restless Grounds, host Mariana Fernández Mora is joined by Sabine Niederer, Flavia Dzodan, and Janine Armin to explore how storytelling, imagination, and artistic practice might offer resistance to extractive and colonial technological systems. The conversation moves through feminist, ecological, and anti-colonial frameworks, asking what it means to design, read, and live with technologies otherwise.

    Together, they consider how technological imaginaries might shift from instruments of control to carriers of shared relations, becoming small, situated, and/or attentive. The discussion touches on data feminism, carrier bag theory, and interspecies communication, tracing how alternative modes of knowledge and relation can unsettle dominant logics of automation, productivity, and mastery.

    What does it mean to treat machines as agents rather than tools? How can we practice care without reproducing extractive or gendered forms of labour? And what happens when we think of technology not as a project of mastery, but as a shared carrier bag, gathering histories, myths, and relations into new forms of collective life?The soundscapes in this episode were created by artist and researcher Angelo Custódio during the Material Playground “Everything Evaporates” (2025).
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  • Translating Worlds, Dreaming Non-Capitalist Futures, and the Counter Human

    Translating Worlds, Dreaming Non-Capitalist Futures, and the Counter Human
    2025/09/13
    In this episode of Restless Grounds, host Mariana Fernández Mora is joined by Andy Dockett, Carlo De Gaetano, and Zachary Formwalt to reflect on what it means to consider yourself a storyteller, the importance of imagining alternative futures, finding joy and opening up new narratives that resist capitalism. Together, they explored the role of storytelling and imagination as resistance within the context of algorithmic systems and their entangled ecologies. From narrative as a site of refusal to the politics of speculative world-building, the conversation considers how creative and collective imaginaries offer tools for resisting extractive technological logics.Soundscapes in this episode were created by artist and researcher Angelo Custódio during the Slow AI Material Playground “Everything Evaporates.”
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    58 分
  • Unicorns, Forgetting, and Algorithmic Histories

    Unicorns, Forgetting, and Algorithmic Histories
    2025/05/14
    In this opening episode of Restless Grounds, we dive into the entangled histories of magic, technology, and capital. Our conversation explores how belief systems—from Enlightenment science to tarot, commodity fetishism to algorithmic “intelligence”—shape not only how we relate to technology, but how technologies are designed to relate to us. Host Mariana Fernández Mora is joined by Flavia Dzodan, Zachary Formwalt, and Carlo De Gaetano to think through magical thinking as both a historical foundation for Western science and a critical tool for deconstructing algorithmic systems today. Together, they ask: What does forgetting have to do with AI? What makes a dataset “magical”? What does a unicorn fossil tell us about the myth of objectivity? From tarot cards to financial systems, from emotional agents to algorithmic affect, this episode weaves together personal histories, critical theory, and artistic practice to confront the social, historical, and material dimensions of artificial intelligence and how AI systems reflect and obscure our histories. The soundscapes in this episode are courtesy of artist and researcher Angelo Custódio and were produced during the Material Playground he hosted, titled “Everything Evaporates.”
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    59 分