Logic Magazine Issue #5
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Published: 2018-08-15
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780998662657
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow technology fails us-and how we fail technology.
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Logic Magazine Issue #1
Author: Ava Kofman
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Published: 2017-03-15
Total Pages: 128
ISBN-13: 9780998662602
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLogic Magazine Issue #1: Intelligence. Including new work by Ava Kofman on DIY brain scanners, Tim Hwang on collective intelligence failure in the Age of Trump, Juan Llamas-Rodriguez on border patrol robots, Conrad Amenta on the industrialization of medicine, Miriam Posner on the feminization of front-end coding, and more.
Subprime Attention Crisis
Author: Tim Hwang
Publisher: FSG Originals
Published: 2020-10-13
Total Pages: 176
ISBN-13: 0374721246
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom FSGO x Logic: a revealing examination of digital advertising and the internet's precarious foundation In Subprime Attention Crisis, Tim Hwang investigates the way big tech financializes attention. In the process, he shows us how digital advertising—the beating heart of the internet—is at risk of collapsing, and that its potential demise bears an uncanny resemblance to the housing crisis of 2008. From the unreliability of advertising numbers and the unregulated automation of advertising bidding wars, to the simple fact that online ads mostly fail to work, Hwang demonstrates that while consumers’ attention has never been more prized, the true value of that attention itself—much like subprime mortgages—is wildly misrepresented. And if online advertising goes belly-up, the internet—and its free services—will suddenly be accessible only to those who can afford it. Deeply researched, convincing, and alarming, Subprime Attention Crisis will change the way you look at the internet, and its precarious future. FSG Originals × Logic dissects the way technology functions in everyday lives. The titans of Silicon Valley, for all their utopian imaginings, never really had our best interests at heart: recent threats to democracy, truth, privacy, and safety, as a result of tech’s reckless pursuit of progress, have shown as much. We present an alternate story, one that delights in capturing technology in all its contradictions and innovation, across borders and socioeconomic divisions, from history through the future, beyond platitudes and PR hype, and past doom and gloom. Our collaboration features four brief but provocative forays into the tech industry’s many worlds, and aspires to incite fresh conversations about technology focused on nuanced and accessible explorations of the emerging tools that reorganize and redefine life today.
Logic Magazine Issue #12
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Published: 2020-12-18
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ISBN-13: 9781952550065
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLogic Magazine Issue #4
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Published: 2018-04-15
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780998662640
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat new kinds of scale does technology enable and demand?Why is scale such an important concept for the tech industry?What kinds of problems and possibilities do big tech, big data, big everything create?How do we govern, mobilize, moderate, democratize at scale?
Logic Magazine Issue #2
Author: Logic Magazine
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Published: 2017-07-28
Total Pages: 234
ISBN-13: 9780998662626
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLogic Magazine's Sex issue explores technology and sexuality. How are people using new tools to fulfill, expand, or transform their sexuality? Is technology liberating users to pursue their true desires? Creating new pleasures, pressures? What even is sex?
The Eye of the Master
Author: Matteo Pasquinelli
Publisher: Verso Books
Published: 2023-10-10
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 1788730089
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA social history of AI that finally reveals its roots in the spatial computation of industrial factories and the surveillance of collective behaviour. What is AI? A dominant view describes it as the quest "to solve intelligence," a solution supposedly to be found in the secret logic of the mind or in the deep physiology of the brain, such as in its complex neural networks. The Eye of the Master argues, to the contrary, that the inner code of AI is shaped not by the imitation of biological intelligence, but the intelligence of labour and social relations, as it is found in Babbage's "calculating engines" of the industrial age as well as in the recent algorithms for image recognition and surveillance. The idea that AI may one day become autonomous (or "sentient", as someone thought of Google's LaMDA) is pure fantasy. Computer algorithms have always imitated the form of social relations and the organisation of labour in their own inner structure and their purpose remains blind automation. The Eye of the Master urges a new literacy on AI for scientists, journalists and new generations of activists, who should recognise that the "mystery" of AI is just the automation of labour at the highest degree, not intelligence per se.
Logic Magazine Issue #6
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Published: 2018-12-15
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9780998662664
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe games people play with technology-and what happens when we let technology play us.
Logic Magazine Issue #9
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Published: 2019-12-07
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ISBN-13: 9780998662695
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWe change our nature as we change our technologies, and our technologies change us. This is why every story about technology is also a story about nature. In any tool, the nature of the user entangles itself with the nature she shapes, and which in turn shapes her.This issue explores these entanglements. Some are toxic, some are enriching, most are a bit of both or somewhere in between. Inevitably, the end of the world looms large. But there are also grounds for hope. At least, Donna Haraway thinks so.
Blockchain Chicken Farm
Author: Xiaowei Wang
Publisher: FSG Originals
Published: 2020-10-13
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 0374721254
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice "A brilliant and empathetic guide to the far corners of global capitalism." --Jenny Odell, author of How to Do Nothing From FSGO x Logic: stories about rural China, food, and tech that reveal new truths about the globalized world In Blockchain Chicken Farm, the technologist and writer Xiaowei Wang explores the political and social entanglements of technology in rural China. Their discoveries force them to challenge the standard idea that rural culture and people are backward, conservative, and intolerant. Instead, they find that rural China has not only adapted to rapid globalization but has actually innovated the technology we all use today. From pork farmers using AI to produce the perfect pig, to disruptive luxury counterfeits and the political intersections of e-commerce villages, Wang unravels the ties between globalization, technology, agriculture, and commerce in unprecedented fashion. Accompanied by humorous “Sinofuturist” recipes that frame meals as they transform under new technology, Blockchain Chicken Farm is an original and probing look into innovation, connectivity, and collaboration in the digitized rural world. FSG Originals × Logic dissects the way technology functions in everyday lives. The titans of Silicon Valley, for all their utopian imaginings, never really had our best interests at heart: recent threats to democracy, truth, privacy, and safety, as a result of tech’s reckless pursuit of progress, have shown as much. We present an alternate story, one that delights in capturing technology in all its contradictions and innovation, across borders and socioeconomic divisions, from history through the future, beyond platitudes and PR hype, and past doom and gloom. Our collaboration features four brief but provocative forays into the tech industry’s many worlds, and aspires to incite fresh conversations about technology focused on nuanced and accessible explorations of the emerging tools that reorganize and redefine life today.
