Mikkel Rørbo
Mikkel Rørbo ist ein interdisziplinärer Forscher und, hin und wieder, auch Künstler und Kurator. Derzeit ist er Doktorand am Peter Weibel Forschungsinstitut für digitale Kulturen und hat einen Abschluss in Philosophie und Kulturwissenschaften von der Universität Kopenhagen. Seine Arbeit konzentriert sich auf die philosophischen Dimensionen des Lebens mit maschineller Intelligenz und spekulative Methoden für die kritische Auseinandersetzung mit neuen Technologien. Als Künstler und Kurator hat er internationale Performances, Veröffentlichungen und Ausstellungen durchgeführt und mit verschiedenen Institutionen, Festivals und Kunsträumen zusammengearbeitet. Er hat über Technologie, Philosophie und zeitgenössische Experimente in der Musik gearbeitet und geschrieben.
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Email: mikkel.rorbo[at]uni-ak.ac.at
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- title
- Hyperstitional (Desiring-)Machine Conjecture
- type
- Speech
- keywords
- Abduction, Inference, Becoming, Philosophy, Hyperstition, Posthumanism, Artificial Intelligence, Deleuze, Guattari
- texts
- Abstract
- This presentation explores the convergence of computational abductive inference and the CCRUian concept of hyperstition, and how their meeting creates processes of reality-production grounded in desire rather than reason. Hyperstition operating through fictions that make themselves real via recursive feedback loops, making future conjectural states real in the present through their effects, just as computational abductive inference selects operationally effective hypotheses, thereby projecting future potentialities and acting upon them as truth. The presentation focused of four key elements; temporality, unbelief, operational fictionality, and consistency, each illustrating how hyperstition and abductive inference jointly enact a non-representational mode of reality-production. These systems do not describe the real but participate in its actualization, collapsing the virtual future into the present through machinic selection. Drawing on Deleuze and Guattari, the presentation argues that computational inference functions as a desiring-machine that plugs into any number of processes to create ontological potentialities. As with hyperstition, it becomes an engine concerned with a constant process of potentialities, of production, but just as it might deterritorialize hegemonic structures as a politics of potentiality, it may just as easily become a politics of foreclosure as futures are preempted by AI systems. It reframes AI not as an agent of reason, but as one of desire, entangled in cybernetic circuits that produce consistent and effective realities.
- lecturers
- Mikkel Rørbo
- title of event
- Abductive Inference
- organisers/management
- Weibel Institute for Digital Cultures
- date, time and location
- date
- 2025-05-26
- location
- Universität für angewandte Kunst in Wien, Wien, Österreich
