Alex – Alex Gekker

Values in Algorithms, Clips and Replicators

Cathy O’Neill tells us that ‘algorithms are opinions, embedded in code‘. She is correct of course, and this is something that those

Defending my Doctoral Dissertation

Tomorrow I will dress up in ridiculous clothing, stand in a room full of dead white dudes portraits and defend my doctoral

Waze, Wars, Wanton Disregard for User Privacy

I’ve decided to jot some things down about the recent Israeli Waze-featured controversy. While the main facts have been reported in the

From Google to Waze and Back, or Here Comes the Drivenger

Here’s a prolonged deliberation on agency, design, cars and the future rise of drivengers, that will drive/ride automatic cars. It’s an attempt

Maps Under Fire

I’m doing my field work in Israel ATM, a usually complicated affair that is being even more complicated by constant rocket alarms,

Colonizing the (pre-cognitive) Quotidian

As I was writing a paragraph on what David Berry calls the ‘pre-thought’ or the ‘pre-cognitive’ and how it relates to my

Conference | SMART Cognitive Science 2015

Cognitive Science conference next year in Amsterdam with two interesting workshops: -Embodied Cognition, Art and Affordances Organizers: Julian Kiverstein and Erik Rietveld

What Facebook ‘Nearby Friends’ Means from a Playful Perspective

Well, it means that Facebook is further tapping into What Brian Sutton-Smith calls ‘the rhetoric of play as the imaginary’ – whereas

Critical Ways of Seeing – 21-22/5/2014 | Radical Media Forum

Critical Ways of Seeing – 21-22/5/2014 | Radical Media Forum. An interesting event at Goldsmiths, I think I’m going: Two Day Symposium