Disintegrator

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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_RG



(...)In this conversation for 邊界_RG (Biānjiè Research Group), Marek Poliks and Roberto Alonso Trillo discuss Exocapitalism: economies with absolutely no limits (Becoming Press) 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.   

Against libidinal-economy readings that anchor capitalism in seduction, ideology, or desire, they argue that anything capable of abstraction can “do” capitalism, so what looks like a shift from spectacle to logistics is rather a relocation of where human experience intersects with a system never primarily oriented toward us. Their key vocabulary—lift, drag, fold, and the last mile—frames capitalism as a tendency toward compounding abstraction (lift), while states attempt to slow and “thicken” abstraction into governable surfaces (drag) through legibility regimes. Yet this doesn’t amount to control so much as a clumsy courtship that increasingly yields incoherent, unusable data and leaves states managing downstream policing, insurance, and remediation: the retrospective consumption and passive production of violence rather than any command over capital’s mechanisms.  
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