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Benjamin Bratton

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Benjamin Bratton

@bratton

Antikythera, UC San Diego, Google Paradigms of Intelligence. Selected Books: The Stack: On Software and Sovereignty, The Terraforming, Accept All Cookies

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Joined February 2008

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Benjamin Bratton
@bratton
Jun 26
At Antikythera we are launching a new research unit, Agentworld, that will explore agentic AI and hybrid agency from first principles: --The Demographic Crossover Point within Centaur Societies --Paradigms of Agency: Individuation and Decomposition --The Mirror Talks Back:
AGENTWORLD | *
From agentworld.antikythera.org
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Benjamin Bratton
@bratton
May 30, 2020
Cockpits: Space Shuttle vs. Dragon
Benjamin Bratton
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Sep 2, 2018
Benjamin Bratton
@bratton
Jan 2, 2022
Don’t Look Up has its moments but the Badiou/ Roland Emmerichian idea that climate change is an “Event” is all wrong (it’s also not helpful to call it a Hyperobject for that matter). It’s an uneven slide into increasingly intolerable new normals and needs to be addressed as such.
Benjamin Bratton
@bratton
Feb 11, 2025
This is the "Dylan Goes Electric" moment for Millennials, a hopeless attempt to take the axe to the machine to save a few tiny little worlds. As I sit and work in Harold Cohen's old office at UC San Diego, let me say that this take on what AI Art is and is for is mind-numbingly
Ed Newton-Rex
@ednewtonrex
Feb 10, 2025
The Guardian reporting on the call from 3,500 artists for the @ChristiesInc AI art auction to be cancelled. It quotes the open letter: “Many of the artworks you plan to auction were created using AI models that are known to be trained on copyrighted work without a licence.
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Benjamin Bratton
@bratton
Feb 25, 2022
An actor playing the President who is elected President who may die for the symbolic value of the position he holds is what living in a simulation means.
Benjamin Bratton
@bratton
Oct 5, 2022
I am honored to announce Antikythera, a program reorienting computation as a philosophical, technological, and geopolitical force.
Antikythera
From antikythera.org
Benjamin Bratton
@bratton
Jan 8, 2025
A summary of Antikythera's 2024 and a preview of our 2025. See you in Tokyo, Milan, Venice, San Francisco, Cambridge, MA, and a few more announced soon. mailchi.mp/f812acc97f4f/2…
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Benjamin Bratton
@bratton
Jan 22, 2024
Antikythera is growing. Consider joining our core team. We are actively hiring for leadership positions in Operations Director and Media Director. berggruen.org/careers Antikythera.org is a think-tank reorienting planetary computation as a philosophical, technological,
Berggruen Institute
From berggruen.org
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Benjamin Bratton
@bratton
Sep 11, 2023
A few weeks after 9/11, CNN ran "Your Proposals", an open to the public architecture design competition to envision what might replace WTC. It includes some of the most amazing things.
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Benjamin Bratton
@bratton
Nov 14, 2025
QAnon level brainrot about AI is going to get much worse and weirder.
kate is drafting 🗡️
@akatepockett
Nov 12, 2025
ai is using up all the drinking water for data cooling centers. disrespectfully, fuck your “personal choice” to use it. your personal choices should not impact everybody negatively
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Benjamin Bratton
@bratton
Jun 14, 2022
Benjamin Bratton
@bratton
Apr 19, 2020
Lockdowns don't “solve” the pandemic. They reset the clock, buying time for cities to prepare for inevitable 2nd and 3rd waves by raising treatment capacity and availability of testing, etc. Sadly most countries are choosing to not learn the lessons of past systemic failures
Benjamin Bratton
@bratton
Feb 5, 2023
The balloon thing is peak something but don’t know what. The simple transparency of its nothingness, the momentum of fake ignorance about how geoimaging works, etc. Scramble jet fighters to shoot a ghost that you know is not real?
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