Disintegrator

Disintegrator is an R&D cluster focused on the bleeding edge of HAIx (human-AI interface) design, with specific attention to realtime interaction and agentic AI. Disintegrator won Google’s prestigious Art + Machine Intelligence Award in 2024.

Disintegrator’s research has been published by MIT Press, Cambridge University Press, their book Choreomata: Performance & Performativity After AI was published by CRC Computer Science / Taylor & Francis in 2023, and their upcoming book Exocapitalism: Economies With Absolutely No Limits will by published by Becoming Press in 2025. Media work associated with the cluster has been featured in exhibitions around the world, from the Shenzhen Art Museum (CN), Osage Gallery (HK), IJCAI (CA/CN), EPFL Pavilions (SZ), MA/IN (IT), etc….

Their eponymous podcast has featured some of the most important figures in AI within the domains of contemporary philosophy of technology, political philosophy, and aesthetics, and was called “the most sophisticated conversations about AI going” by Novara Media.

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Marek Poliks and Roberto Alonso Trillo
in conversation with 邊界_systemsIn this conversation for 邊界_systems, Marek Poliks and Roberto Alonso Trillo discuss Exocapitalism: economies with absolutely no limits as a thesis about capital grasped “from above”: not necessarily a new historical phase, but an ontological recognition of capital as an abstract operational object whose logic is not exhausted by any human-centered discourse.

The interview stress-tests exocapitalism across contemporary art, Web3, AI-agent “Coasean” coordination, and the fate of “the political,” while explicitly situating the authors’ claims amid a web of references and interlocutors: James C. Scott via a shout-out attributed to Blaise Agüera y Arcas ; decentralization skepticism credited to Benjamin Bratton; and a direct engagement with Seb Krier’s agentic bargaining optimism. In the art register, they note how artists and theorists quickly “grasp the fold,” naming Hito Steyerl, Simon Denny, Mark Leckey, and Mohammad Salemy as adjacent nodes, while also drawing on McKenzie Wark, Catherine Malabou, and Beatrice Fazi for orientation on vectorialization, anarchism, and computation-as-thought; they even cite Nick Land’s reaction in the broader discourse ecosystem.learn more

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