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Over the past four decades, the idea that both digital machines and human agents are networked intelligences and parts of self-organizing systems has not only shaped financial markets, but has also been incorporated into economic thinking and artificial intelligence. This has led to what Halpern calls the ‘financialization of cognition’, an economy of attention that reconfigures human agency and decision-making based on a model of contemporary finance and the digital economy.
Part of Breaking and Making Models Containing:
Introduction / Christoph F. E. Holzhey, Marietta Kesting, Claudia Peppel
Models as Media of Worlding in Sadie Benning and Fernand Deligny / Astrid Deuber-Mankowsky
Abstraction as Strategy for Worldmaking: Generalization in Freud’s Rat Man / Julia Sánchez-Dorado
From Climate Model to Climate Fiction: Kim Stanley Robinson’s The Ministry for the Future as Operative Literature / Ross Shields
The Slime Mould’s Many Bodies, or Modelling Networks with Physarum polycephalum: Fanon with Lévi-Strauss / Maria Dębińska
Persistence: Model Asylum Narratives and a Recognizable ‘Transgenderness’ / B Camminga
The Statistical Cloud of Race: Lancelot Hogben’s Anti-Eugenics between Populations and Organisms / Ben Woodard
Crises in Modelling: Articulations of the Romanian Labour Market in the Long 1990s / Alina-Sandra Cucu
Models, Markets, and Artificial Intelligence: A Brief History of our Speculative Present
Large Language Models, Parrots, and Children: Modelling Speech, Text, and Learning Processes / Marietta Kesting
Modelling Institutions, Instituting Models: The Juridification of Politics and the Performative Power of Naming / Natascia Tosel
Aesthetic Modelling at the Limit of the Human Montage: Vignettes of Homes and Homing / Marta Aleksandrowicz
The Exophonic Lyric: A Poetics / Mark Anthony Cayanan
Towards a Genealogy of Moffie: Troubling the Binary Model of Understanding either Homosexuality or Homophobia as Un-African / Ruth Ramsden-Karelse
Title
Models, Markets, and Artificial Intelligence
Subtitle
A Brief History of our Speculative Present
Author(s)
Orit Halpern
Identifier
Description
Over the past four decades, the idea that both digital machines and human agents are networked intelligences and parts of self-organizing systems has not only shaped financial markets, but has also been incorporated into economic thinking and artificial intelligence. This has led to what Halpern calls the ‘financialization of cognition’, an economy of attention that reconfigures human agency and decision-making based on a model of contemporary finance and the digital economy.
Is Part Of
Place
Berlin
Publisher
ICI Berlin Press
Date
20 May 2025
Subject
financial market
model
artificial intelligence
neoliberal economics
neural networks
machine learning
algorithm
Hayek, Friedrich
Rights
© by the author(s)
Except for images or otherwise noted, this publication is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Language
en-GB
page start
201
page end
215
Source
Breaking and Making Models, ed. by Christoph F. E. Holzhey, Marietta Kesting, and Claudia Peppel, Cultural Inquiry, 33 (Berlin: ICI Berlin Press, 2025), pp. 201–15

Publication scheduled for 20 May 2025