Orit Halpern on Knowledge, Data and Democracy

Orit Halpern on Knowledge, Data and DemocracyShownotes Orit HalpernProf. Dr. Orit Halpern at TU Dresden:https://tu-dresden.de/gsw/slk/germanistik/digitalcultures/die-professur/inhaber-inOrit Halpern’s website:https://orithalpern.net/ Halpern, O. (2015). Beautiful data: A history of vision and reason since 1945. Duke University Press.https://www.dukeupress.edu/beautiful-dataHalpern, O., & Mitchell, R. (2023). The smartness mandate. MIT Press.https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262544511/the-smartness-mandate/ Hayek, F. A. (2013). The use of knowledge in society. In Modern understandings of liberty and property (pp. 27-38). Routledge.https://home.uchicago.edu/~vlima/courses/econ200/spring01/hayek.pdf Bush, V. (1945). As we may think. The atlantic monthly, 176(1), 101-108.https://www.ias.ac.in/article/fulltext/reso/005/11/0094-0103 on CERN:https://home.cern/about/who-we-are/on the Event Horizon Telescope:https://eventhorizontelescope.org/on the IPCC:https://www.ipcc.ch/on critiques of the Enlightenment:https://polsci.institute/modern-political-philosophy/critiques-enlightenment-modernity/Horkheimer, M., Adorno, T. W., & Noeri, G. (2002). Dialectic of enlightenment. Stanford University Press. https://www.sup.org/books/theory-and-philosophy/dialectic-enlightenment on Keynesianism:https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keynesianismuson MAGA:https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Make_America_Great_Again on the Frankfurt School:https://www.britannica.com/topic/Frankfurt-Schoolon high modernism:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_modernismon totalitarianism according to Hannah Arendt:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Origins_of_TotalitarianismFriedrich Hayek:https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_August_von_Hayek on strict constitutionalism/constructionism:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strict_constructionismon the Electoral College:https://www.archives.gov/electoral-college/abouton Stafford Beer:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stafford_Beerhttps://www.kybernetik.ch/en/fs_beer.html on post-sovereign planning:Mohammed, S. Z. (2025). Post-sovereign planning? Nature, culture and care in the new socialist calculation debate. In Creative Construction (pp. 265-278). Bristol University Press.https://bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/edcollchap/book/9781529235142/ch014.xmlLatour, B. (2012). We have never been modern. Harvard university press.https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674948396 on the cultural revolution:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_Revolutionon the Belt and Road initiative:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belt_and_Road_Initiative on Mao Zedong:https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mao_Zedongon Planetary Experiments:https://orithalpern.net/planetaryexperimentsHalpern, O. (2019). The Planetary Test. Zeitschrift für Medien and Kulturforschung, Vol 10. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5e2c7ee53de3f756cfd6cbbc/t/65a808813c02ca697d90089a/1705511045522/planetarytestarticleZMK.pdfHalpern, O. (2020). Planetary intelligence. In The cultural life of machine learning: An incursion into critical AI studies (pp. 227-256). Cham: Springer International Publishing. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-56286-1_8 on Large Language Models (LLMs):https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_Language_Model on Victor Papanek:https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_PapanekGroos, J., & Sorg, C. (Eds.). (2025). Creative construction: Democratic planning in the 21st century and beyond. Bristol University Press. https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/creative-construction on Terraforming:https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terraformingon Geoengineering:https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoengineeringon NVIDIA Earth 2:https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/high-performance-comon Destination Earth:https://www.esa.int/Applications/Observing_the_Earth/Destination_Earthon Piketty’s inequality equation r > g:https://equitablegrowth.org/pareto-distribution-r-g/Piketty, T. (2014). Capital in the twenty-first century. Harvard University Press. https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674430006 the mentioned quote on the ‘weak cyborg dream’ in Orit Halpern (2019, p. 22): https://publish.fid-media.de/server/api/core/bitstreams/73aba255-56d2-4595-83b5-bfdad3740ffb/contentAgainst Catastrophes:https://againstcatastrophe.net/ Orit Halpern on resilience:Halpern, O. (2025). The geo-politics of resilience: On the historical convergence between ecology, artificial intelligence, and corporate strategy. new media & society, 27(8), 4581-4605. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/14614448251336420 on Ground Truth:https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground_Truth on benchmark data:https://brilliantfuture.se/en/glossaries/benchmark-dataRelated Episodes of Future HistoriesS03E34 | Cecilia Rikap on Intellectual Monopoly Capitalism and Corporate Power in the Age of AIhttps://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e34-cecilia-rikap-on-intellectual-monopoly-capitalism-and-corporate-power-in-the-age-of-ai/S02E44 | Evgeny Morozov on Discovery Beyond Competitionhttps://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s02/e44-evgeny-morozov-on-discovery-beyond-competition/S02E43 | Samia Mohammed zur Zukunft jenseits des Markteshttps://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s02/e43-samia-mohammed-zur-zukunft-jenseits-des-marktes/—Future Histories Contact & SupportIf you like Future Histories, please consider supporting us on Patreon:https://www.patreon.com/join/FutureHistoriesContact: [email protected] Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/futurehpodcast/Mastodon: https://mstdn.social/@FutureHistoriesEnglish webpage: https://futurehistories-international.comEpisode Keywords#OritHalpern #JanGroos, #Interview, #TUDresden, #FutureHistoriesInternational, #FutureHistories, #Knowledge, #Data, #Democracy, #Technology, #Society, #ArtificialIntelligence, #AI, #Data, #Capitalism, #Neoliberalism, #PlanetaryExperiments, #PostSovereignPlanning, #DemocraticPlanning, #Alternatives