Series of short B/W films and reading of "Calculation ad Division of Labour by Lorraine Daston" at the Critical Media Lab
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In our second istallment of the ethics and technology series we will be joined by the Blasphemic Reading Soirée friends for an evening of collective reading and watching, discussing the relationship between humans, machines and labour. We will attempt to organically switch between reading and watching, between producing and consuming.
The chosen movies will attempt to shine a light on how the development of the camera led to the advancement in management, specially in regards to taylorism; while the reading will give us a glimpse into the transformation of the cognitive ability of calculation into its mechanical counterpart: computation