Nothing to Scry Over: Classification as Divination ~ on Divination and AI

2019-2020

A zine workbook and workshop on the intersection of divination and AI, covering the overlaps between AI, classification, history of early statistics (Quetelet), divination and empire. Presented at CtrlZ.AI tech zinefest in 2019, an auxiliary event of ACM FAccT in Barcelona. How do we use divination to dream and inhabit the world in radically different ways?

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