Slides for media life, University of Amsterdam, Fall 2015

1. Media Life
Inleiding Mediacultuur I
11 War [options]
#medialife #IMCI

3. options in media life
①war against the machines
②surrender to mediated reality
③become media (and hack life)

6. gradually easing off the dependency

7. moving to a deserted /remote place
establish a new land and don’t tell anyone
moving to a resort without electricity or phones

8. break your media

9. be someone new

10. or
just
die

11. fail Genetic Lifeform and Disk Operating System tests

12. “day by day [-] the machines are gaining
ground upon us; day by day we are becoming
more subservient to them; more men are daily
bound down as slaves to tend them, more men
are daily devoting the energies of their whole
lives to the development of mechanical life.”
1863

13. “The upshot is simply a question of time, but that the
time will come when the machines will hold the real
supremacy over the world and its inhabitants”

19. ”In the context of life, we do not want to be tied uniquely
to carbon-based life, or life-as-we-know-it, but we also do
not want life-as-could-be to be anything at all. The
challenge lies precisely on finding the right amounts of
systemhood and thinghood, as well as the interactions
between the two, necessary for a good theory of life, real
or artificial.”