trevor paglen, how to see like a machine
first, check out his How to See Like a Machine: Images After AI (verso) but also, this article about paglen: https://aestheticamagazine.com/trevor-paglenseeing-like-a-machine/ which contains: 1) "He’s also been doing a similar thing with landscapes of the American West, as well in Clouds , where skyscapes are overlaid with lines indicating what algorithms – such as those in guided missiles, drones and self-driving cars – “see” when they scrape images for patterns." ['scrape images for patterns' is an evocative phrase; human sight feels like so much more than that but that feeling is both real (vision probably isn't reducible to that) and suspect ("scrape" could feel like an attractive mismatch ala 'humans are hard coded or wired to blah blah', which themselves interestingly use both digital and physical metaphors to reinforce predestination). 2) " Barely two pages into the first chapter of this book, ...