2.3 A String Theory of Self

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Scripting for Agency

Katarina Ranković

31 episodes

3 days ago

Scripting for Agency: An Artistic Enquiry into Selfhood, Character and Agency in the Age of AI is a lecture series based on Katarina Ranković’s practice-based PhD in Fine Art at Goldsmiths, University of London. Combining philosophy, performance, creative writing, and AI theory, the series explores how our understanding of the self shapes our personal lives, our politics, and our relationship to intelligent technologies. New episodes every Sunday and Thursday until 14.12.25. YouTube series: https://bit.ly/sfa-series Thesis PDF: https://bit.ly/sfa-pdf Thesis art: https://bit.ly/sfa-art

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2.3 A String Theory of Self

Scripting for Agency

14 minutes 32 seconds

1 month ago

2.3 A String Theory of Self

About this Series

In this episode, we explore a new model of selfhood: the line. Building on earlier discussions of the self as vessel and as distributed, this chapter proposes that the self might be understood as a medium, akin to a guitar string or a wave field, that resonates with and expresses viral patterns of character. Drawing from physics, drawing, and memetics, this video reframes agency and personhood through the aesthetics and logic of resonance, contagion, and impressionability.This is the third of three episodes in Chapter 2 of the thesis, Scripting for Agency, exploring the shapes we use—often unconsciously—to model the self.About this Series

Scripting for Agency: An Artistic Enquiry into Selfhood, Character and Agency in the Age of AI is a video lecture series based on Dr Katarina Ranković’s practice-based PhD in Fine Art at Goldsmiths, University of London. Combining philosophy, performance, creative writing, and AI theory, the series explores how our understanding of the self shapes our personal lives, our politics, and our relationship to intelligent technologies.

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Series Playlist: https://bit.ly/sfa-series

PhD thesis (PDF format): https://bit.ly/sfa-pdf

Thesis artworks: https://bit.ly/sfa-art

References

- Coppola, Roman, Jason Schwartzman, Alex Timbers, and Paul Weitz. Mozart in the Jungle. Season 2, Episode 3, “It All Depends on You.” United States: Amazon Prime Video, 2014.

- Morin, David. “Fourier Analysis.” In Unpublished Textbook on Waves, 2009. https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/dav....

- Warner, Marina. Phantasmagoria: Spirit Visions, Metaphors, and Media into the Twenty-first Century. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006.