Benjamin Bratton

Benjamin Bratton is a philosopher of technology and professor at the University of California, San Diego. He is the author of numerous books, including “The Stack: On Software and Sovereignty” (MIT Press, 2016) and “The Revenge of the Real: Politics for a Post-Pandemic World” (Verso Press, 2021). Benjamin Bratton is the director of the Antikythera program at the Berggruen Institute.


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DATE POSTED
June 20, 2024
Essay Technology & the Human
The Five Stages Of AI Grief
Grief-laden vitriol directed at AI fails to help us understand paths to better futures that are neither utopian nor dystopian, but open to radically weird possibilities...
DATE POSTED
October 5, 2022
Interview Technology & the Human
A New Philosophy Of Planetary Computation
Introducing Antikythera, a new program to examine the implications of an unfolding radical philosophical event: the emergence of planeta...
DATE POSTED
July 12, 2022
Essay Technology & the Human
The Model Is The Message
The debate over whether LaMDA is sentient or not overlooks important issues that will frame debates about intelligence, sentience, langu...
DATE POSTED
June 17, 2021
Essay Technology & the Human
Planetary Sapience
Planetary-scale computation — an emergent intelligence that is both machine and human — gave us the perspective to see Earth as an int...