This paper explores scaling as material practice, imperative, belief system, imaginary and mathematical law(s) in today’s AI, in particular in the development of large language models.
Join writer and researcher Kevin Guyan to explore ideas from his new book Rainbow Trap: Queer Lives, Categories and the Dangers of Inclusion. Rainbow Trap reveals how the fight for LGBTQ equalities is shaped – and constrained – by the classifications we encounter every day.
All Q-Step seminars are on Mondays at 1-2pm in the Violet Laidlaw Room, Chrystal Macmillan Building. They are open to all students and staff. Events are free. No booking is required.
Join us for The Seed and the Well: Ecologies of Risk in Rural India with Dr Tanya Matthan.
Lauren Rogers will talk on 'Never (Again) Alone: Discourses of Loneliness in the War in Ukraine'. This is a pre-read seminar – email rburles@ed.ac.uk if you wish to attend.
This event is in partnership with the Royal African Society, Edinburgh Global, and the Centre of African Studies.
What is the role of the artist, the photograph, and humanitarian communication in wars defined by the digital flux and saturation of images? Has digital participation and instant connectivity illuminated or obscured war’s human experience and costs? How are colonial technologies of vision and image-making translated into the realm of automated decision making? And after digital war is all that is left only more traumatic memory or something salvageable for remembrance, justice and accountability? This symposium launches Prof. Andrew Hoskins’ project WARSHARE: The New War Front: Digital Participation in War (UKRI HEu ERC Advanced Grant EP/Z53335X/1
