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... manufacturers introduce arsenic or gallium gas to silicon, rendering it a semiconductor. Various combinations of thus-treated silicon comprise diodes, foundational technologies to modern computing architecture, including that of the 3D printer. But who poisons, and who is poisoned? The “clean rooms” of Silicon...

... are inherently arbitrary, for, paraphrasing Spinoza, we know not yet what a machine can do. Computational excitement is generated not only by retroactive comparison, but also by forecasting what machines will eventually become capable of. Time spent in the heady technoculture of Silicon Valley underlines...

... has extended its reach to the exploitation of the internal resources of the human body. Negt and Kluge argue that “Silicon Valley is full of people carrying around Towers of Babel inside them,” and the construction of the mega- city of Shanghai by professed Marxists is another such echo...

..., calculative thought, and neoliberal pattern recognition in places like Silicon Valley, especially. The question is, How might a machine philosophy scale up to challenge contemporary networks? Benjamin Bratton and the Strelka Institute have given us at least one example. How would you differentiate...

... the inventor appropriates it, and how he plays on it. In fact we even confuse the two; an object takes on the same properties as its inventor. Yet they are different. One is a fl esh and blood body, the other silicon. That which acts in the hands of others is equa- tions and models. The computer is both...

... it, shooting its silicon atoms around a particle accelerator, writing a story about it, pretending it’s a glass of liquid gold, ignoring it), it would still withdraw. Even if every other object in the entire uni- verse were to exhaust every single aspect of the glass, it would still...

... as automation discourse, an escalating celebration of the liberatory potential of digital futures and the decline of labor demand endorsed by the dominant classes and “the jeans-wearing elite of Silicon Valley.” 20 Automation discourse, notes Benanav, is “a symptom of our era” that arises “when the global...

... 1939): 739–64. 66. “The fi rst speaking ‘chip’ was not etched in silicon but carved out of wood” (CS 25). 67. In “MP” I trace von Kempelen’s infl uence from Wheatstone to Bell to AT&T. See also Thomas Hankins and Robert Silverman, “Vox Mechanica: The History of Speaking Machines...