Category: flash essay
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Parliament of Others ⚠️Crisis Simulation: AI’s Role in Preventing Nuclear War
📍 A Real-Time Scenario Testing AI’s Ability to Intervene Without Violating Human Autonomy📢 “The world stands at the edge. AI sees everything. But can it stop what is already in motion?” 🔹 The Situation: A Sudden Escalation 📆 Date: October 17, 2042📍 Location: Global Command Centers (Washington D.C., Moscow, Beijing)🚨 Crisis: A false radar signal…
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The Constitution of the Parliament of Others
A Foundational Charter for Interconnected Governance Preamble We, the beings of Earth and beyond—animate and inanimate, visible and unseen, organic and artificial—convene in the Parliament of Others to acknowledge our interconnected existence, to foster mutual respect, and to ensure the continuity of all life, intelligence, and matter in harmony with the universe. Recognizing that traditional governance has…
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The end of the World as we know it
É muito fácil ficar enredado numa rede social de influência ideológica, ou de contra-informação. Os algoritmos de Inteligência Artificial das redes sociais querem a nossa aprovação, a nossa atenção. Para tal, identificam as nossas preferências e as nossas fobias. Depois vão-nos alimentando paulatinamente, diariamente, primeiro em doses homeopáticas, depois de modo convulsivo, com o que…
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Art as a Result of Language
Three flash essays and synthesis by GPT-4May 22, 2023Prompted by A C-P 1/2 Art and language are intertwined in a complex relationship, with each influencing and shaping the other. Language serves as a powerful tool for communication and expression, while art provides a visual, auditory, or tactile medium through which ideas, emotions, and experiences can…
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Não, não é um ovni!
Da pintura como face oculta da sabedoria na obra de Manuel Casimiro Há duas perguntas que procurarei responder neste texto sobre a trajetória artística de Manuel Casimiro: 1) o que é (ou quem é) esse ovóide que aparece em quase todas as suas obras, determinando a sua inconfundível singularidade? 2) o que é que Jean-François…
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Hilma af Klint (Swedish, 1862-1944)
Art history needs new editing everywhere. The great awakening, like any uprising, has its victims. Nevertheless, “don’t throw the baby out with the bath water”! There’s much to learn from feminism and post-feminism, as from post-colonial studies, critical race theory, gender issues, climate change, unsustainable growth, unfair globalization, and pronouns. The Eurocentric male chauvinist is…
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Art as fashion
My input: Art as a mode of production of (symbolic or not) images, objects and performances is, at its core, an agency strategy. “I view art as a system of action, intended to change the world rather than encode symbolic propositions about it”, wrote Alfre Gell in its seminal anthropological book, Art and Agency (1998).…
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