Nika Mahnič (they)

21st March 2023

I am fine / on the UCU strike

as there is only so much space on placards

LSE Review of Books • 1st February 2022

Muldoon's Platform Socialism: How to Reclaim our Digital Future from Big Tech / LSE Review of Books

Platform Socialism is a refreshing contribution to the pile of grim books analysing the current predicament.

Kulturpunkt • 13th January 2022

Sediments in the Machinery for a Future / The End of the World Seminar

How does recording erase, and what kind of violence does it produce? This lecture is about the ways in which technological decisions limit(ed) future political claims, rights, and justice.

The Calvert Journal • 8th November 2021

Migration poems / The Calvert Journal

We used to watch Games without frontiers On TV inflatable, colourful instruments For and of a competition the periphery was allowed to win

1st February 2021

Offshoring and Other Magic Tricks of Global Finance / Aksioma

An interview with RYBN, on golden passports and other ways of gold mining.

YouTube • 27th October 2020

A conversation with Dr Julia Schneider / Aksioma

How can computer science be made to be more attentive to the issue of minorities and the poor? Are some institutions better left undigitised? Is banning certain technologies a necessary solution or is it just feeding our paranoia? In a free market, is that even possible? Should we renew our conceptions of privacy?

YouTube • 29th September 2020

Dan pravice vedeti / Tehnološki park Ljubljana

Moj prispevek k dogodku o etiki ponovne uporabe podatkov v digitalni družbi, ki so ga organizirali Urad Informacijske pooblaščenke, Ministrstvo za javno upravo, Tehnološki park Ljubljana in Gospodarska zbornica Slovenije.

Radio Prvi • 22nd September 2020

Pametna mesta in prihodnost demokracije / Radio Prvi

Nekaj misli o tem, kako javno-zasebna partnerstva gradijo pametna mesta in spreminjajo upravljanje.

29th June 2020

Paradoks človekovih pravic v postčloveškem času / Delo

O mojem raziskovalnem delu.

27th May 2020

Berljivost teles / Spol.si

Glasovi, geste in dotiki so vezivo skupnosti. Boriti se moramo za njihovo – s tem pa našo – strojno neberljivost, za naše resnice.

7th April 2020

Digital platforms after covid-19 / Karantena Pritličje

A conversation with Dr Paško Bilić about the power of digital platforms, infrastructures that bring us closer in the times of social distancing. What is the thing with Zoom, how is Big Tech doing (business)?

ŠOP Records • 3rd April 2020

prediction advice feat. left / ŠOP Records, Sounds From Slovenian Bedrooms III α

But you signed the terms that condition you with their business mights And you vote every day Scroll to be assigned a role Click for your future clique

1st April 2020

O vpeljavi dodatnih policijskih pooblastil in nadzoru državljanov v času epidemije / Karantena Pritličje

Zasebnost < zdravje?

Domen Savič • 4th March 2020

Zasebnost in razosebljanje / Cryptoparty

Upor enoumju poteka vsak dan. Je vsako dejanje, ki ga naredimo za ohranjanje pluralnosti. Je vsaka odločitev proti enovitemu obnašanju, proti fašizmu.

3rd March 2020

Left To Our Own Devices / KU Leuven Philosophy of Technology conference

Without a more engaged inquiry into the existence and design of persuasive technologies setting their limits, surveilling their creators, we might soon gaze deeply into the eyes of an “empathetic” simulant of surveillance, or the medium as the concealed master.

11th November 2019

Utopije iz ugrabljenih teles / Spol.si

Barlowova kiberutopija ni vzpostavila prostora, v katerem bi lahko delovale ali bile vzpostavljene infrastrukture, ki bi delovale ne glede na identitetne označevalce.

29th July 2019

Explainable trade secrets: an oxymoron or fertile ground for innovation?

Amendment to the Article 70a of the Polish banking law that came into effect in June of this year, is the first legislative initiative in European Union that has the aim to empower bank clients seeking an explanation of their credit score, or the prediction of their creditworthiness.

22nd May 2019

Obrazno prepoznavanje / Vzhodno od queera ali Kjer ga najdeš, Pritličje

"Vzhodno od queera ali Kjer ga najdeš" o etiki tehnologije obraznega zaznavanja in potencialu sorodne programske opreme, da krši pravico ljudi do zasebnosti ali da se jo zlorabi za gonjo zoper LGBT skupnost.

SoundCloud • 10th April 2019

The Tech Killjoy / Wonk Bridge

On fairness, accountability, transparency and (ab)uses of tech ethics.

SpringerLink • 13th March 2019

Encountering bloody others in mined reality / AI & Society, Springer

Following recent proposals to ascribe legal subjectivity to synthetic agents, this article explores the effects on agency, interaction with flesh-and-blood others and democracy in an attention economy enmeshed with technologies of behavioural manipulation powered by users’ utterances that enable novel forms of social control by owners of the means of communication.