Sasha Shilina

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Sasha Shilina is a researcher by vocation, a PhD with expertise in DLT. She is interested in practices that intersect philosophy, technology, and the arts

As a philosopher of technology, she reflects on how emerging tools and systems mediate human experience, shape new ontologies, aesthetics, and ways of knowing.
 
Her art works explore the intrinsic connection between soul & body, (un)consciousness & physicality, that often manifests through themes of acquainting oppositions. creating a dynamic interplay of undressing layers, the focus is on the sensitive and tense essence of human forms, both in their material & mental dimensions.



entries
bat{AI}lle
On Acephalic Intelligence and the General Economy of Computation  
Part I
Sasha Shilina


publication

(...)Sasha Shilina’s “On Acephalic Intelligence and the General Economy of Computation” argues that AI should be read less as “frictionless” interface intelligence and more as a planetary regime of expenditure—water, electricity, labor, extraction, and epistemic overflow—whose costs are aestheticized away by the language of optimization. Drawing on Georges Bataille, Shilina reframes AI through “general economy,” where surplus is unavoidable and must be spent, and develops “acephalic intelligence” to name AI as a headless assemblage of infrastructures, standards, institutions, and data/compute flows that concentrates power without a single sovereign subject. 

The essay links contemporary AI pathologies—sacrificial hidden work, infrastructural governance, and synthetic plausibility that outpaces truth—to broader theoretical constellations (postwar political economy, media theory, accelerationist and inhuman turns, and cosmotechnics), insisting the core stakes extend beyond bias or transparency to questions of sovereignty, sacrifice, waste, and the possibility of refusal or counter-design within an expanding computational order.(...more)