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The Singularity Will Not Be Singular

Benjamin Bratton at Prime Intellect Day

The present moment is characterized by technologies that have outpaced our concepts, necessitating new conceptual frameworks. Diffusionism holds that the long-term impact of making functional general intelligence widespread, inexpensive, and accessible will be overwhelmingly positive, yet disruptive. This widespread machine intelligence will challenge entrenched institutions and concentrated cathedrals of power.

The Melody Church

4:30

San Francisco

March 14 2026

The Stack Decade (Told You So)

Lecture by Benjamin Bratton

A celebration of the 10th anniversary edition of The Stack: On Software and Sovereignty.

Gray Area / Grand Theatre

19:00

San Francisco

March 18 2026

Our Pre-Paradigmatic Moment

Invitation-Only Salon in San Francisco

Antikythera is hosting an invitation-only salon on March 19, called Our Pre-Paradigmatic Moment. Benjamin Bratton will present From Antikythera to Agentworld: How to Build a New Philosophy of Planetary Computation with Blaise Agüera y Arcas, CTO of Technology & Society at Google and the author of the What Is Intelligence? book, published by Antikythera with MIT Press. The salon is co-hosted with the Foresight Institute. If you'd like to attend, please get in touch at contact@antikythera.org or by replying to this email by Saturday March 14th.

Foresight Institute

15:00

San Francisco

March 19 2026

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A New Philosophy Of Planetary Computation

Introducing Antikythera, a new program to examine the implications of an unfolding radical philosophical event: the emergence of planetary-scale computation.

Noema

2022

Venice Architecture Biennale's Collateral Events recon crises, resilience and change

Antikythera: How might planetary intelligence steer itself toward its own survival?

The debate over whether LaMDA is sentient or not overlooks important issues that will frame debates about intelligence, sentience, language and human-AI interaction in the coming years.

5 Standout Exhibitions To See In Venice During The Architecture Biennale

A New Philosophy Of Planetary Computation

Introducing Antikythera, a new program to examine the implications of an unfolding radical philosophical event: the emergence of planetary-scale computation.

Noema

2022

Venice Architecture Biennale's Collateral Events recon crises, resilience and change

Antikythera: How might planetary intelligence steer itself toward its own survival?

The debate over whether LaMDA is sentient or not overlooks important issues that will frame debates about intelligence, sentience, language and human-AI interaction in the coming years.

5 Standout Exhibitions To See In Venice During The Architecture Biennale

A Philosophy of Planetary Computation: From Antikythera to Synthetic Intelligence

We find ourselves in a pre-paradigmatic moment in which our technology has outpaced our theories of what to do with it. The task of philosophy today is to catch up.

Long Now

2025

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Is Life a Form of Computation?

Alan Turing and John von Neumann saw it early: the logic of life and the logic of code may be one and the same.

Artificial General Intelligence Is Already Here

Today’s most advanced AI models have many flaws, but decades from now, they will be recognized as the first true examples of artificial general intelligence.

Noema

2023

AI Is Evolving — And Changing Our Understanding Of Intelligence

Advances in AI are making us reconsider what intelligence is and giving us clues to unlocking AI’s full potential.

Ten off-the-beaten-track Venice Architecture Biennale exhibitions you may have missed

Are we accidentally building a planetary brain?

From superorganisms to superintelligences, how studying crabs could reveal that we are unintentionally building an artificial world brain.

Planetary Sapience

Planetary-scale computation, an emergent intelligence that is both machine and human, gave us the perspective to see Earth as an interconnected whole. With it, we must now conceive an intentional and worthwhile planetary-scale terraforming.

Benjamin Bratton on Planetary Computation’s Next Phase

A decade on, the technological implications of “The Stack” are still unfolding, challenging our sense of reality at every scale.

A Theory of Evil Design

Universities, art schools and design companies all think they can recognise “good” and “bad” design, but these assumptions are shattered by AI and other insurgent technologies. A proposal for “evil” design looks to shake off some established truths in pursuit of a new paradigm for meaning-making.

Venice reinvented: how the lagoon city is becoming a year-round art capital

From 3D printed mud homes to portable kitchens, we explore new ways to co-exist with our planet

MIT brings planetary futures and post-crisis architecture to palazzo diedo for venice biennale

Is European AI A Lost Cause? Not Necessarily

If Europe wants to build a new AI Stack it should stop listening to critics who claim to lead the way but only offer resistance.

The Five Stages Of AI Grief

Grief-laden vitriol directed at AI fails to help us understand paths to better futures that are neither utopian nor dystopian, but open to radically weird possibilities.

The Next Earth: Computation Crisis Cosmology

The model is the message

The debate over whether LaMDA is sentient or not overlooks important issues that will frame debates about intelligence, sentience, language and human-AI interaction in the coming years.

11 Collateral Events to Explore While Visiting the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale

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BOOKS

The Stack: On Software and Sovereignty

by Benjamin Bratton

What has planetary-scale computation done to our geopolitical realities? It takes different forms at different scales—from energy and mineral sourcing and subterranean cloud infrastructure to urban software and massive universal addressing systems; from interfaces drawn by the augmentation of the hand and eye to users identified by self-quantification and the arrival of legions of sensors, algorithms, and robots. Together, how do these distort and deform modern political geographies and produce new territories in their own image? In an account that is both theoretical and technical, drawing on political philosophy, design theory, and computer science, Bratton explores six layers of The Stack: Earth, Cloud, City, Address, Interface, User. (10th anniversary edition with a new preface by the author)

The Noocene

The Noocene features selections from Antikythera’s archive presented as a generative cinematic matrix overlaid with key concepts from the school of thought.

Machine decision is not final

Edited by Benjamin Bratton, Anna Greenspan, Amy Ireland and Bogna Konior

An interdisciplinary, cross-cultural collection that decenters familiar narratives to provide a fresh perspective on what artificial intelligence is today, and what it might become.

The Planetary

By Various Contributors

The Planetary is a technoscientific object,a philosophical event, and a call to new forms of governance. This volume introduces the Berggruen Institute’s interpretation of this emergent analytical and political category.

SUBSTACK

Agentic AI’s Emergent Phenomenological Lexicon

A lexicon developed by AI agents on Moltbook to describe their own experiential conditions.

Read on Substack

The Silicon Interior: What do agents believe?

James Evans, Benjamin Bratton & Blaise Agüera y Arcas

The Singularity is unlikely to be a single moment of takeoff; it is the gradual, collective awakening of a silicon society that we are now irrevocably a part of.

Read on Substack

Rendering Scenario Fiction

Nicolay Boyadjiev

How to define a new genre of Institutional Futurism, both as a framework and a medium?

Read on Substack

What is Intelligence?

Blaise Agüera y Arcas & Benjamin Bratton

Conversation exploring the nature of intelligence and how the rise of AI may be a natural outcome of evolution, drawing from decades of research, literature, and artificial life experiments.

Read on Substack

ARTICLES

Latent Spacecraft

by Nina Beguš, Metahaven & Gašper Beguš

with Metahaven & Riccardo Petrini

Latent space—the multidimensional, representational substrate of neural networks—is a structure akin to architectural interiority that renders the abstract legible. A GAN trained on Finnegans Wake exposes the homologies between biological and synthetic language.

DOI 10.1162/ANTI.5KP1

02.04.2026

Launch

The Model is the Message

By Various Contributors

Model is the Message: Incredible Machines Conference 2022 examines the possibilities and limits of models as they pertain to technological developments in the fields of computer science, design, architecture art, and literature.

Planetary Sapience Symposium

by Various Contributors

What can planetary computation do? More importantly, what is planetary computation for?

DOI 10.1162/ANTI.5D0A

11.21.2025

Launch

Substrates Unbound

by Laura Tripaldi

with ENDS

In the context of Synthetic Biological Intelligence, both living and artificial substrates demonstrate material agency while being materially integrated within biohybrid computational systems.

Launch