From 4c3b5b9b2760f3b0c53028862c315a1bc5542cdd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sean Dockray Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2020 23:29:39 +1000 Subject: [PATCH] lessons in how not to be heard --- content/curriculum/index.md | 2 +- .../topic/lessons-in-how-not-to-be-heard.md | 25 +++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) create mode 100644 content/topic/lessons-in-how-not-to-be-heard.md diff --git a/content/curriculum/index.md b/content/curriculum/index.md index 78aa8ac..5bb203e 100644 --- a/content/curriculum/index.md +++ b/content/curriculum/index.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- title: "Machine Listening" -has_topics: ["against-the-coming-world-of-listening-machines.md"] +has_topics: ["against-the-coming-world-of-listening-machines.md", "lessons-in-how-not-to-be-heard.md"] --- # Machine Listening, a curriculum diff --git a/content/topic/lessons-in-how-not-to-be-heard.md b/content/topic/lessons-in-how-not-to-be-heard.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..acfe4d1 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/topic/lessons-in-how-not-to-be-heard.md @@ -0,0 +1,25 @@ +--- +title: "Lessons in how not to be heard" +has_lessons: [] +--- +# Lessons in how not to be heard + +## Lesson 1: How to become inaudible by disabling silicon ears + +With difficulty; name machine listening as an object of political contestation and struggle; describe some of its features, as they are clarified by the pandemic; become an artist becoming a paradigm dissident; dismantle capitalism and abolish big data, since they are increasingly difficult to disentangle; produce a diverse counterculture of machine listening; demonstrate and mock machine listening in its thoughtlessness; demonstrate and mock the machine listening industry in its thoughtlessness; write a policy document, but with artists as well as lawyers; destroy the data centres; fuck the algorithm. + +## Lesson 2: How to be inaudible in the presence of microphones + +Tear them down or rip them out; be somewhere loud; mask your speech with noise; jam signals; invent the privacy industry; never use a telephone, or a smart speaker, or a car, or a city; ask Siri; cover your laptop with sticky tape; have a speech disorder; write a manifesto on audio luddism; invent new languages; autotune everything; be female and over 50, or indigenous. + +## Lesson 3: How to make yourself inaudible by being out of earshot + +Be very quiet; refuse to attend the teleconference; live in the right neighbourhood; be a member of a group that machine listeners don't care about; be a member of a group they care about a lot; use encrypted audio; spend the evening doomscrolling the machine listening apocalypse. + +## Lesson 4: How to become inaudible by merging into a world of operational sound + +Speak in code; become the code you speak; entitle your next album Adversarial Music Synthesizer (Threat Model); embed subliminal messages in it, but for Alexa; get an Amazon Halo for Christmas; get your cough medicine delivered the day before you start coughing; allow machine listening's attempted perfection of the subject to extinguish the subject. + +## Lesson 5: How to be inaudible by having nothing to hide + +Enjoy being listened to; get your coronavirus diagnosis over the phone; get your coronavirus diagnosis without asking to be tested; let google book your haircut for you; ask your voice assistant for advice about your polyamorous relationship; listen to "ambient music for reading" on your smart headphones, forever; become and evangelist of technosolutionism; allow yourself to be convinced that the main problem is privacy; petition the court for access to your partner's Alexa archive; enjoy extraordinary rendition and extrajudicial drone killings; enjoy being unable to get a loan or access state services and not knowing why. \ No newline at end of file