Papers by Lisa Müller-Trede
TDR/The drama review, Mar 1, 2024
In this digital video supplement to the issue, Lisa Müller-Trede restages a 2022 performance in w... more In this digital video supplement to the issue, Lisa Müller-Trede restages a 2022 performance in which she hired an actor to deliver her talk and then interrupted “her” talk at a conference on affective computing—an event that bursts open the academic norms that forbid consideration of the violent uses to which AI research, especially when connected to human bodies, can lend itself.
TDR/The drama review, Mar 1, 2024
Matter, Feb 25, 2022
This article discusses Gilbert Simondon's philosophies of the technical object, information, and ... more This article discusses Gilbert Simondon's philosophies of the technical object, information, and individuation to frame the potential inherent in a practical application of his notions of intensity, amplification, and transduction of relational processes, which have been largely neglected in the traditions of substantialist and hylomorphic thought. Specifically, the study introduces a method to discern relational information by amplifying audible breath patterns of a collective via a wearable digital stethoscope (WDS). The non-lexical modality of the breath grants insights into non-verbal phases of communication during which multiple points of view may exist simultaneously. These points of view can be understood as a subject's sense of orientation within phases prior to signification, i.e., before affect becomes a specific emotion and before perception becomes a concrete action-using the terms as they are defined by Simondon. Bodily movement is audible within the breath and can be further transcribed into preliminary signs with the help of a sequence transduction machine learning (ML) model. Discerning semiosis within audible breath patterns exemplifies a logic of computation which is not concerned with quantitative and qualitative information but, instead, computes intense data to grasp relational dynamics.
Matter: Journal of New Materialist Research, 2022
In her interview with Lisa Nakamura in 2003, Donna Haraway called for "prospects for a materialis... more In her interview with Lisa Nakamura in 2003, Donna Haraway called for "prospects for a materialist informatics" that is attentive to the kinds of humanness and machineness that are produced in material-semiotic encounters with/in technology, and to the kinds of perspectives that do not fit well the technoscientific norms of such encounters (Nakamura & Haraway, 2003). Building on the work of Donna Haraway,
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Papers by Lisa Müller-Trede