The Mandate Dem(o)ing of Catastrophe w/Orit Halpern

Orit Halpern discusses her latest book, co-authored with Robert Mitchell, The Smartness Mandate, which surveys the confluence of the logic of ‘smartness’ tied to catastrophe, demoing, temporality, populations, and ubiquitous computing.


Orit Halpern is Lighthouse Professor and Chair of Digital Cultures at Technische Universität Dresden and the author of Beautiful Data: A History of Vision and Reason since 1945 and The Smartness Mandate with Robert Mitchell.