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邊界_RG is an artist collective and a research group. They work at the edge of language, memory, and machine cognition. Their collaboration explores the aesthetics of the recursive interplay between generative systems, speculative design, experimental essay...(learn more)
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How to find inner peace Carl Olsson
Coasean Bargaining at Scale Séb Krier
Crisis Media: Sonic Architectural Synaesthesia, Stochastic Redundancy and Nuclear Post-Humanitarian Tactic Yidi Lola Wang
Chatbots as Psychoanalysts, or, ‘The Talking Cure Morgane Billuart
Creative Liberation or Digital Colonization?, David Lazăr
The Artificial Unconscious, Germán Sierra
Artificiality and Emotions: Beyond the FleshMorgane Billuart
Fango 1000 & Large Lore Models, dmstfctn, Alasdair Milne, Eva Jäger
What Is Artificial Experience (AX), William Morgan













Sasha Shilina

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Sasha Shilina is a researcher by vocation, a PhD with expertise in DLT. She is interested in practices that intersect philosophy, technology, and the arts. 

As a philosopher of technology, she reflects on how emerging tools and systems mediate human experience, shape new ontologies, aesthetics, and ways of knowing.
 
Her art works explore the intrinsic connection between soul & body, (un)consciousness & physicality, that often manifests through themes of acquainting oppositions. creating a dynamic interplay of undressing layers, the focus is on the sensitive and tense essence of human forms, both in their material & mental dimensions.


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bat{AI}lle
On Acephalic Intelligence and the General Economy of Computation  
Part I
Sasha Shilina

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(...)Sasha Shilina’s “On Acephalic Intelligence and the General Economy of Computation” argues that AI should be read less as “frictionless” interface intelligence and more as a planetary regime of expenditure—water, electricity, labor, extraction, and epistemic overflow—whose costs are aestheticized away by the language of optimization. Drawing on Georges Bataille, Shilina reframes AI through “general economy,” where surplus is unavoidable and must be spent, and develops “acephalic intelligence” to name AI as a headless assemblage of infrastructures, standards, institutions, and data/compute flows that concentrates power without a single sovereign subject. 

The essay links contemporary AI pathologies—sacrificial hidden work, infrastructural governance, and synthetic plausibility that outpaces truth—to broader theoretical constellations (postwar political economy, media theory, accelerationist and inhuman turns, and cosmotechnics), insisting the core stakes extend beyond bias or transparency to questions of sovereignty, sacrifice, waste, and the possibility of refusal or counter-design within an expanding computational order.(...more)
bat{AI}lle
On Acephalic Intelligence and the General Economy of Computation  
Part II
Sasha Shilina

publication

Recently, we published the first part of Sasha Shilina’s “On Acephalic Intelligence and the General Economy of Computation,” which argued that AI should be understood less as frictionless interface intelligence than as a planetary regime of expenditure—one that consumes water, electricity, labor, extraction, and attention while aestheticizing those costs through the language of optimization. Drawing on Bataille, Shilina introduced “acephalic intelligence” to describe AI as a headless assemblage of infrastructures, institutions, standards, and compute flows that concentrates power without a single sovereign subject.

Part two carries that argument forward by examining the regimes of surplus, sacrifice, sovereignty, and waste that structure contemporary AI more deeply. It tracks how training converts cultural and social traces into model-capacity through a logic of sacrificial destruction, how governance migrates into platforms, protocols, and pipelines, and how hallucination, overproduction, and synthetic plausibility reveal a broader economy of excess rather than isolated technical defects. In doing so, Shilina shifts the terms of analysis beyond familiar debates around bias, transparency, or explainability, toward the more fundamental question of how computational systems organize expenditure, distribute loss, and render those losses politically legible or invisible. The result is a more exact account of AI as a headless but highly operative order of power, and of the narrowing but still possible space for refusal, counter-ritual, and constraint within it.
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