ANTIKYTHERA: DIFFUSION
Available Now on Substack
Antikythera Diffusion seeds and seeks ventures that scale computogenesis by channeling capital, ideas and talent.
Antikythera: Journal for the Philosophy of Planetary Computation
Volume 2025 Available Now
The Next Earth. Computation, Crisis, Cosmology
MAY–NOV 2025
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Venice
Bringing together two leading research initiatives, Antikythera’s The Noocene: Computation and Cosmology from Antikythera to AI and MIT Architecture’s Climate Work: Un/Worlding the Planet, this exhibition confronts urgent questions about our planet’s future & the role of architecture in shaping it.
Planetary Sapience
OCTOBER 25, 2024
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MIT Media Lab
Planetary Sapience presented Antikythera’s speculative philosophy of computational technologies and planetary intelligence through a day-long symposium. The event featured short presentations of new work from Antikythera’s forthcoming digital Journal followed by lively discussion on the program’s key topics.
Speculative Philosophy of Planetary Computation
OCTOBER 23, 2024
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MIT Media Lab
Keynote lecture by Benjamin Bratton, which featured Antikythera’s philosophy of technology and the speculative design work of the think tank. The keynote reviewed the program’s core research themes: planetary computation, synthetic intelligence, recursive simulations, hemispherical stacks, and planetary sapience, and presented glimpses of the content and ideas behind Antikythera’s forthcoming digital journal and book series with MIT Press.
Planetary Sapience & Planetary Stupidity: a Bildungsroman for the Baby Noosphere
JULY 8, 2024
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CSM
In this talk, Thomas Moynihan explores Earth’s emergence into self-awareness through human intelligence, tracing the intertwined histories of scientific insight, planetary transformation, and technological folly as preludes to potential planetary sapience.
Cognitive Infrastructures Salon
JULY 5 2024
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London
Salon assembled 50+ Affiliate Researchers and leaders working across Synthetic Intelligence for a day of conversation on Cognitive Infrastructures and to discuss works in progress with Antikythera studio researchers.
What is Intelligence?
JULY 4, 2024
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CSM
What is Intelligence? is a lecture by Blaise Agüera y Arcas recorded in July 2024 in London as part of Antikythera’s Cognitive Infrastructures Studio lecture series.
57 Ideas & Questions about Cognitive Infrastructures
JULY 3, 2024
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CSM Platform Theater
As AI becomes both more general and more foundational, it shouldn’t be seen as a disembodied virtual brain. It is a real, material force. AI is embedded into the active, decision-making processes of real world systems. As AI becomes infrastructural, infrastructures become intelligent.
Recursive Worlds
JULY 2, 2024
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CSM
Recursive Worlds is a lecture by Sara Walker recorded in July 2024 in London as part of Antikythera’s Cognitive Infrastructures Studio lecture series.
How to Think Unlike Humans?
JULY 1, 2024
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CSM
Chen Qiufan provocatively interrogates the anthropocentric biases constraining human cognition, advocating for a radical epistemological recalibration through speculative fiction.
COGNITIVE INFRASTRUCTURES STUDIO
JUNE – JULY 2024
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London
As artificial intelligence becomes infrastructural, and as societal infrastructures concurrently become more cognitive, the relation between AI theory and practice needs realignment. Across scales – from world-datafication and data visualization to users and UI, and back again – many of the most interesting problems in AI design are still embryonic.
For a General Theory of Simulations
JANUARY 11, 2024
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USC
So many disciplines deploy simulations, and yet they remain undertheorized. From scientific modeling to VR/AR, from engineering to entertainment, Antikythera is composing a general theory of simulations.
After Alignment
JUNE 28, 2023
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CSM Platform Theater
A public lecture at Central St. Martins University of the Arts London reviewed shifts from AGI to artificial generic intelligence, the decentering of personal data, the challenges of AI in science, intelligence as an evolutionary scaffold, the limitations of mainstream AI ethics, and why a planetary model of synthetic intelligence must drive its geopolitical project.
PLANETARY COMPUTATION STUDIO
FEB – JUN 2023
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LA / CDMX / Beijing
Antikythera’s inaugurative five-month speculative design Studio ran from February to June 2023, where Studio Researchers from diverse professional backgrounds took part in collaborative design briefs, theory seminars, and technical workshops to create projects contributing to a growing body of research on the program’s themes.
HEMISPHERICAL STACKS SALON
APRIL 2023
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Beijing
Science fiction writers, philosophers, technologists, and researchers explored sovereign data, foundational models, chip wars, and astropolitics. Co-curated with Berggruen Fellow and science fiction writer Chen Qiufan.
SYNTHETIC CATALLAXY SALON
APRIL 2023
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Mexico City
This salon analyzed and developed planetary scale infrastructure and interventions, focused on four areas of Synthetic Catallaxy research: planning, price, carbon macroeconomics, and UBX (Universal Basic X).
RECURSIVE SIMULATIONS SALON
NOVEMBER 2022
•
Los Angeles
A salon on Recursive Simulations focused on the emergence of simulations as an epistemological technology and the ways these models create worlds in turn.
PLANETARY COMPUTATION SALON | Amsterdam
OCTOBER 2022
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Amsterdam
A planning salon explored trajectories for Antikythera’s program of reorienting planetary computation.
PLANETARY COMPUTATION SALON | Berlin
OCTOBER 2022
•
Berlin
A planning salon explored trajectories for Antikythera’s program of reorienting planetary computation.
PLANETARY COMPUTATION SALON | London
JULY 2022
•
London
A planning salon explored trajectories for Antikythera’s program of reorienting planetary computation.
The Next Earth. Computation, Crisis, Cosmology
MAY–NOV 2025
•
Venice
Bringing together two leading research initiatives, Antikythera’s The Noocene: Computation and Cosmology from Antikythera to AI and MIT Architecture’s Climate Work: Un/Worlding the Planet, this exhibition confronts urgent questions about our planet’s future & the role of architecture in shaping it.
Planetary Sapience
OCTOBER 25, 2024
•
MIT Media Lab
Planetary Sapience presented Antikythera’s speculative philosophy of computational technologies and planetary intelligence through a day-long symposium. The event featured short presentations of new work from Antikythera’s forthcoming digital Journal followed by lively discussion on the program’s key topics.
Speculative Philosophy of Planetary Computation
OCTOBER 23, 2024
•
MIT Media Lab
Keynote lecture by Benjamin Bratton, which featured Antikythera’s philosophy of technology and the speculative design work of the think tank. The keynote reviewed the program’s core research themes: planetary computation, synthetic intelligence, recursive simulations, hemispherical stacks, and planetary sapience, and presented glimpses of the content and ideas behind Antikythera’s forthcoming digital journal and book series with MIT Press.
Planetary Sapience & Planetary Stupidity: a Bildungsroman for the Baby Noosphere
JULY 8, 2024
•
CSM
In this talk, Thomas Moynihan explores Earth’s emergence into self-awareness through human intelligence, tracing the intertwined histories of scientific insight, planetary transformation, and technological folly as preludes to potential planetary sapience.
Cognitive Infrastructures Salon
JULY 5 2024
•
London
Salon assembled 50+ Affiliate Researchers and leaders working across Synthetic Intelligence for a day of conversation on Cognitive Infrastructures and to discuss works in progress with Antikythera studio researchers.
What is Intelligence?
JULY 4, 2024
•
CSM
What is Intelligence? is a lecture by Blaise Agüera y Arcas recorded in July 2024 in London as part of Antikythera’s Cognitive Infrastructures Studio lecture series.
57 Ideas & Questions about Cognitive Infrastructures
JULY 3, 2024
•
CSM Platform Theater
As AI becomes both more general and more foundational, it shouldn’t be seen as a disembodied virtual brain. It is a real, material force. AI is embedded into the active, decision-making processes of real world systems. As AI becomes infrastructural, infrastructures become intelligent.
Recursive Worlds
JULY 2, 2024
•
CSM
Recursive Worlds is a lecture by Sara Walker recorded in July 2024 in London as part of Antikythera’s Cognitive Infrastructures Studio lecture series.
How to Think Unlike Humans?
JULY 1, 2024
•
CSM
Chen Qiufan provocatively interrogates the anthropocentric biases constraining human cognition, advocating for a radical epistemological recalibration through speculative fiction.
COGNITIVE INFRASTRUCTURES STUDIO
JUNE – JULY 2024
•
London
As artificial intelligence becomes infrastructural, and as societal infrastructures concurrently become more cognitive, the relation between AI theory and practice needs realignment. Across scales – from world-datafication and data visualization to users and UI, and back again – many of the most interesting problems in AI design are still embryonic.
For a General Theory of Simulations
JANUARY 11, 2024
•
USC
So many disciplines deploy simulations, and yet they remain undertheorized. From scientific modeling to VR/AR, from engineering to entertainment, Antikythera is composing a general theory of simulations.
After Alignment
JUNE 28, 2023
•
CSM Platform Theater
A public lecture at Central St. Martins University of the Arts London reviewed shifts from AGI to artificial generic intelligence, the decentering of personal data, the challenges of AI in science, intelligence as an evolutionary scaffold, the limitations of mainstream AI ethics, and why a planetary model of synthetic intelligence must drive its geopolitical project.
PLANETARY COMPUTATION STUDIO
FEB – JUN 2023
•
LA / CDMX / Beijing
Antikythera’s inaugurative five-month speculative design Studio ran from February to June 2023, where Studio Researchers from diverse professional backgrounds took part in collaborative design briefs, theory seminars, and technical workshops to create projects contributing to a growing body of research on the program’s themes.
HEMISPHERICAL STACKS SALON
APRIL 2023
•
Beijing
Science fiction writers, philosophers, technologists, and researchers explored sovereign data, foundational models, chip wars, and astropolitics. Co-curated with Berggruen Fellow and science fiction writer Chen Qiufan.
SYNTHETIC CATALLAXY SALON
APRIL 2023
•
Mexico City
This salon analyzed and developed planetary scale infrastructure and interventions, focused on four areas of Synthetic Catallaxy research: planning, price, carbon macroeconomics, and UBX (Universal Basic X).
RECURSIVE SIMULATIONS SALON
NOVEMBER 2022
•
Los Angeles
A salon on Recursive Simulations focused on the emergence of simulations as an epistemological technology and the ways these models create worlds in turn.
PLANETARY COMPUTATION SALON | Amsterdam
OCTOBER 2022
•
Amsterdam
A planning salon explored trajectories for Antikythera’s program of reorienting planetary computation.
PLANETARY COMPUTATION SALON | Berlin
OCTOBER 2022
•
Berlin
A planning salon explored trajectories for Antikythera’s program of reorienting planetary computation.
PLANETARY COMPUTATION SALON | London
JULY 2022
•
London
A planning salon explored trajectories for Antikythera’s program of reorienting planetary computation.