Future Histories· Staffel 4· Folge 9
S04E09 - Orit Halpern on Knowledge, Data and Democracy
Sonntag, 19. Juli 2026 · 1 h 28
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Orit Halpern on Knowledge, Data and Democracy
Shownotes Orit Halpern
Prof. Dr. Orit Halpern at TU Dresden:
tu-dresden.de/gsw/slk/germanistik/digitalcultu…
Orit Halpern’s website:
Halpern, O. (2015). Beautiful data: A history of vision and reason since 1945. Duke University Press.
Halpern, O., & Mitchell, R. (2023). The smartness mandate. MIT Press.
mitpress.mit.edu/9780262544511/the-smartness-m…
Hayek, F. A. (2013). The use of knowledge in society. In Modern understandings of liberty and property (pp. 27-38). Routledge.
home.uchicago.edu/~vlima/courses/econ200/sprin…
Bush, V. (1945). As we may think. The atlantic monthly, 176(1), 101-108.
ias.ac.in/article/fulltext/reso/005/11/0094-0103
on CERN:
on the Event Horizon Telescope:
on the IPCC:
on critiques of the Enlightenment:
polsci.institute/modern-political-philosophy/c…
Horkheimer, M., Adorno, T. W., & Noeri, G. (2002). Dialectic of enlightenment. Stanford University Press.
sup.org/books/theory-and-philosophy/dialectic-…
on Keynesianism:
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keynesianismus
on MAGA:
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Make_America_Great_Again
on the Frankfurt School:
britannica.com/topic/Frankfurt-School
on high modernism:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_modernism
on totalitarianism according to Hannah Arendt:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Origins_of_Totalitar…
Friedrich Hayek:
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_August_von_Hayek
on strict constitutionalism/constructionism:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strict_constructionism
on the Electoral College:
archives.gov/electoral-college/about
on Stafford Beer:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stafford_Beer
on post-sovereign planning:
Mohammed, S. Z. (2025). Post-sovereign planning? Nature, culture and care in the new socialist calculation debate. In Creative Construction (pp. 265-278). Bristol University Press.
bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/edcollchap/b…
Latour, B. (2012). We have never been modern. Harvard university press.
hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674948396
on the cultural revolution:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_Revolution
on the Belt and Road initiative:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belt_and_Road_Initiative
on Mao Zedong:
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mao_Zedong
on Planetary Experiments:
orithalpern.net/planetaryexperiments
Halpern, O. (2019). The Planetary Test. Zeitschrift für Medien and Kulturforschung, Vol 10.
static1.squarespace.com/static/5e2c7ee53de3f75…
Halpern, O. (2020). Planetary intelligence. In The cultural life of machine learning: An incursion into critical AI studies (pp. 227-256). Cham: Springer International Publishing.
link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-56…
on Large Language Models (LLMs):
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_Language_Model
on Victor Papanek:
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Papanek
Groos, J., & Sorg, C. (Eds.). (2025). Creative construction: Democratic planning in the 21st century and beyond. Bristol University Press.
bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/creative-construc…
on Terraforming:
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terraforming
on Geoengineering:
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoengineering
on NVIDIA Earth 2:
nvidia.com/en-us/high-performance-com
on Destination Earth:
esa.int/Applications/Observing_the_Earth/Desti…
on Piketty’s inequality equation r > g:
equitablegrowth.org/pareto-distribution-r-g
Piketty, T. (2014). Capital in the twenty-first century. Harvard University Press.
hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674430006
the mentioned quote on the ‘weak cyborg dream’ in Orit Halpern (2019, p. 22):
publish.fid-media.de/server/api/core/bitstream…
Against Catastrophes:
Orit Halpern on resilience:
Halpern, O. (2025). The geo-politics of resilience: On the historical convergence between ecology, artificial intelligence, and corporate strategy. new media & society, 27(8), 4581-4605.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/14614448…
on Ground Truth:
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground_Truth
on benchmark data:
brilliantfuture.se/en/glossaries/benchmark-data
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