In his talk ‘Machine Language’, computer and political scientist, Pierre Depaz, talks about “how we came to frame the computing machine, the latest miracle in human history, in terms of human words, and how through doing that, we allowed numerical systems to make unequivocal decisions about our lives”. The Serpentine’s annual festival of ideas brought together practitioners from the fields of activism, art, anthropology, architecture, literature, music, philosophy, theology and science. The 2016 Serpentine Miracle Marathon focused in on ritual, repetition and magical thinking to consider ways in which the imaginary can not only predict, but also play a part in affecting long-term futures.
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