Joanna Zylinska

Joanna Żylińska (born May 5, 1971) is a United Kingdom writer and researcher. She is the Professor of New Media and Communications, and Co-Head of the Department of Media and Communications, at Goldsmiths, University of London. In 2017 she proposed a “feminist counter-apocalypse” as an alternative to the dangers of the "Exit of Man", Artificial Intelligence and Populism.

Joanna Żylińska
BornMay 5, 1971[1]
NationalityUnited Kingdom
OccupationAcademic and writer
EmployerGoldsmith's College[2]

Life

Żylińska was born in 1971. She was brought up in Poland where the idea of being an intellectual was an ambition that she wanted to follow. She moved to the UK during her graduate studies. She is interested in new media and art and particularly the effects of emerging technology.[3]

She has discussed the nature of the Borg in Star Trek: First Contact. She noticed that while other alien species are usually tolerated by humans in Star Trek, the Borg are viewed differently because of their cybernetic alterations and their loss of autonomy. Members of the Star Trek crew who are assimilated into the Collective are viewed as "polluted by technology" and less than human. Zylinska draws comparisons between the technological distinction of humanity and machine in Star Trek and the work of artists such as Stelarc[4] who uses his own body to experiment with technology.[5]

In 2013 she took on the role of curator when she oversaw as Artistic Director the large Latin American new media festival. The festival was titled, Transitio_MX05 Biomediations, and was held in Mexico City.[6]

Gary Hall (academic) together with Clare Birchall and Open Humanities Press,[7] Żylińska helped create the Jisc-funded project starting in 2014[8][9] LivBL: Living Books about Life, a sustainable series of electronic open access books about life - with life understood both philosophically and biologically - providing a bridge between the humanities and the sciences. The books are open and can be updated on-line.

Her 2017 book "Nonhuman Photography" deals with the subject of what she calls non-human imaging. She argues that we need to redefine image making to make it less human-centric. Art should include not only recent automated astronomy pictures, computational photography, Google Earth but also older created images such as fossils.[6] She experiments herself with images and she is intrigued by the tragicomical idea of the "end of man".[6]

In 2018 she published "The End of Man: A Feminist Counterapocalypse". It was a book and film which proposed a “feminist counter-apocalypse” as an alternative to the dangers of the "Exit Man", Artificial Intelligence and Populism.[10]

Works include
  • The Cyborg Experiments: the extensions of the body in the media age (2002)[4]
  • Minimal Ethics for the Anthropocene (2014)
  • Nonhuman Photography (2017)
  • The End of Man: A Feminist Counterapocalypse (2018)[11]

Translation
  • Lem, Stanisław (2013). Summa Technologiae. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. ISBN 0816675767., first complete English translation[12]
gollark: Are you assuming my gender and/or age and/or species and/or name and/or second-person pronoun?
gollark: Is this incomprehensible spam or actual text of some sort?
gollark: ... what?
gollark: No. Make it its own program.
gollark: Just write an assembly interpreter.

References
  1. Żylinska.
  2. "Zylinska, Joanna (1971 -....)". IDRef.
  3. Apr 13, Laureano Ralón |; Interviews, 2013 |; Z | 0 | (2013-04-13). "Interview with Joanna Zylinska". Figure/Ground. Retrieved 2020-05-01.CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  4. Zylinska, Joanna (2002). The cyborg experiments: the extensions of the body in the media age. Continuum International Publishing Group. pp. 46–50. ISBN 0-8264-5903-X.
  5. "Stelarc". SensiLab. Retrieved 2020-05-01.
  6. "Talk by Joanna Zylinska at the conference DAEMONS IN THE MACHINE: Anticipating Artificial Intelligence | British Council". www.britishcouncil.ru. Retrieved 2020-05-01.
  7. "Open Humanities Press"
  8. "JISC - Living Books about Life"
  9. "Living Books about Life"
  10. "Exit Man". Vimeo. Retrieved 2020-05-02.
  11. "The End of Man". University of Minnesota Press. Retrieved 2020-05-01.
  12. "A brilliant trip back to the technological future", New Scientist, May 15, 2013
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