Theodor Sarafidis
Department of Social Anthropology, Panteion University, Athens
Biography
Postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Social Anthropology at Panteion University. The title of my research is 'The entropic control societies and the invention of democratic algorithmic machines of negentropy'. Recently completed the construction of a map of Liberty AI Machines through the articulation of Viable System Model, Schizoanalysis. LAIMs are configured by the cooperation of experts and non-experts to provide an ecosophic eudemonic ethos in the institutions through the warm instead big datafication. I am a member of the Metaphorum cooperative, as well as the Society of Deleuze and Guattari Studies Athens. Still active on social movements regarding Commons, Direct Democracy and Social Ecology.I have translated, under a commons license in Greek, the 'Precarious Rhapsody - Semiocapitalism and the pathologies of post-alpha generation' by Franco Berardi Bifo and 'The Beginning of History Value Struggles and Global Capital' by Massimo De Angelis, as well as many articles regarding commons, feminism, social ecology and heterarchical movements. I am passionate about creating a barefoot cybernetics perspective by and for all earthlings.
Sessions
Artificial intelligence as a liberty machine. A metamodelization of barefoot cybernetics
Stafford Beer invented a metasystemic language to produce liberty machines of competent information, with which we could empower human freedom. Good old fashioned artificial intelligence (GOFAI) models are articulated to the hierarchical organizations, dominated by the signifiers of money and the white, wise, colonizer, patriarchal bureaucrat. GOFAI is steered by grand narratives such as the constant development and the control of risks through cyberopticon (Sarafidis, Theodor). Data in GOFAI is processed through representational reductionist models, which are critical for the “management of affairs”. (Beer, Stafford). Liberty AI machines (LAIM) are based on an ecosophic and eudemonic ethos (Beer Stafford, Guattari Felix) that emerges from the viable organization of human affects, emotions, meanings, qualia, representations, intents and actions (Sarafidis). They are constructed as systems (De Angelis, Massimo) by the viable heterarchical organizations of commoners. LAIM are part of machinic phyla (Φ) in open systems or rhizomes (Deleuze & Guattari), operating through a reticulum of the Viable System Model (Beer), the Schizoanalysis (Guattari), the Human Scale Development or Barefoot economics (Max-Neff, Manfred) and Cybersemiotics. LAIM as barefoot machines respect the 'plurality of the commoners' (de Angelis) as autopoietic assemblages of territories of the selves (T), universal references (U), machinic phyla (Φ) and material and signaletic flows (F) (TUΦF). Experts and citizens form participatory networks to produce informational transducers processing “warm datafication” (Bateson, Nora and Massumi, Brian) rather than big datafication. Warm data are transcontextual and transversal diagrams of TUΦF that feed Barefoot AI, setting up “ligne de fuite” to a symbiotic Gaia.