Johan fredrikzon
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Computer Science, Ph. History of Ideas , is a researcher in the History of technology and media. As of fall he is a visiting scholar at Stanford University.
Previously, he was a visiting postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, Berkeley. This work investigates how the notion of what constitutes a mistake has influenced what has counted as intelligence in humans and machines, respectively.
Nej, ”själen” är inte människans framtid
In a publication, Fredrikzon laid out the contours of a new research field — erasure studies — by providing scholars from many disciplines with a theoretical framework with which to engage in problems concerning how objects such as files, texts, and photographs but also identities, data, buildings, and memories are made to disappear from the world.
As of May , Fredrikzon is under contract with the leading Nordic publisher Fri Tanke to write a history of the ideas of artificial intelligence AI. The aim is to produce an accessible account of how thinking in AI has devleoped over time. In recent years, Fredrikzon has taken active part in the public discourse on AI from a Nordic perspective: "Lämna tanken om att AI är en kamp mellan människa och maskin" Svenska Dagbladet, Jan His monograph Cycles of data: Environment, Population, Administration, and the Cultural Techniques of Early Digitalization Mediehistoriskt arkiv , demonstrates how the origins of our data-driven present can be traced back to changes in fundamental operations such as modeling, linking, and reuse in the s and 70s.
Already half a century ago, the downplaying of human labor in digital work, imaginaries of data as a "raw" resource, the management of data as "capital", and an algorithmic understanding of the natural environment were articulated by big tech of the day, i.
Publications by Johan Fredrikzon
In addition to errors, in his research, Fredrikzon has published on the processes of erasure, waste, and decay at the intersection of digital media and material culture. For a general audience, he has recently written a book-length essay on death and the act of writing Norstedts as well as a book chapter on nuclear radiation in an anthology on death and dying in the history of ideas Appell Fredrikzon has taught on the history of future studies, the history of radiation as a problem of communication, key concepts in Foucault, postcolonial theory, and the history of technological critique.
Recent publications include:.