Literature Question

we explored how artificial intelligence changes how we think about cities. Not only the human-centric point of view but also the accessible bounded spatiality of the city upon which concepts of locality and urban place depend must be reformulated. 

The documentary bears witness to how top Go players are experiencing the surpassing of AI. How do we experience this historically unprecedented moment? Are we in denial or curious? How does the use of algorithms in finance affect the working class? What politically informed ethnographic projects can attend to this historical moment? Specifically, how New York is changing in this context. A city first a colonial port, then an industrial center, then first harbinger of information economy, then the center of radical or otherwise subcultures (music scene, drug scene, black aesthetics, Latin Kings and Queens, fashion, etc.), then a node in the global financial capitalism and finally at this point an image among many images digital or otherwise.