Planetarische Bauern

Contemporary computation has evolved within the very frameworks of competition and growth that lie at the heart of growing inequalities and our ecological problems. But suppose, ask New York-based artists and media activists Tega Brain (born 1982 in Sidney, Australia) and Sam Lavigne (born 1981 in San Francisco), computers would enact different economic principles. Could they be tools for imagining radically different ways of distribution and action? For Planetary Peasants, they examine cases of "xenocomputing", including Cybersyn, a cybernetic computer system developed in 1971 to administer Chile's planned economy, and the DivLab, a computer network envisaged by Ursula Le Guin in the novel The Dispossessed to run an eco-anarchist community. Brain and Lavigne develop a computer that proposes new labor distributions for the U.S. population using real names and occupations from voter records. Rather than relying on so-called AI to automate decisions about who should do what, the system adopts randomness as its primary logic.