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Publications by Johan Fredrikzon

Peer reviewed

Articles

[1]
Fredrikzon, J. (2025). Rethinking Error : ‘Hallucinations’ and Epistemological Indifference. Critical AI, 3(1).
[2]
Fredrikzon, J. (2024). ARARAT 1976 : The Exhibition as Environing Medium. Journal of Social and Cultural Possibilities (JSCP), 58-79.
[3]
Fredrikzon, J. & Haffenden, C. (2023). Towards erasure studies : Excavating the material conditions of memory and forgetting. Memory, Mind and Media, 2.
[4]
Fredrikzon, J. (2022). Spårlösa handlingar : Att arbeta med historiskt källmaterial som inte åldras. Lychnos, Special issue on digital history.
[5]
Fredrikzon, J. (2015). Den upptagna rösten : Kassettbandets roll vid Foucaults Paris-föreläsningar och i hans Iran-reportage 1978. Lychnos, 165-197.

Conference papers

[6]
Fredrikzon, J. (2022). Environment, Privacy, History – Formation of the Data Landscape. Presented at the Anniversary Symposium for the Media History Publication Series [Mediehistoriskt arkiv], held at the National Library of Sweden, June 16, 2022..
[7]
Fredrikzon, J. (2022). Error in the Era of Artificial Intelligence. In Paper presented at The Berkeley Film & Media Seminar, UC Berkeley, December 8, 2022..
[8]
Fredrikzon, J. (2021). The Making of Human Error in the Era of Artificial Intelligence, 1940–1990. Presented at Histories of AI: A Genealogy of Power – Sawyer Seminar Winter Symposium at Cambridge University, December 14–15, 2021..
[9]
Fredrikzon, J. (2019). Data Exhaust in 1970s Biopolitics. Presented at "Wearing Out the Image", Yale University Film & Media Studies Conference 2019, Whitney Humanities Center, Yale University, February 8–9, 2019..
[10]
Fredrikzon, J. (2017). Beyond the Look of Age : The Eeriness of Early Digital Archives. Presented at "Representations+Poetics+Sites+Publications, an International Conference", Linköping, Sweden, November 29 – December 1, 2017..
[11]
Fredrikzon, J. (2017). Everything May Disappear, Nothing Must Be Discarded : The Recycling Trope On and Off Screen. Presented at "Environmental Humanities Network", Deptartment of Literature, History of Ideas, and Religion, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, January 13, 2017..
[12]
Fredrikzon, J. (2017). The Birth of the Database and the Taboo of Erasure. Presented at "From Dust to Dawn: Archival Studies After the Archival Turn", Uppsala, Sweden, November 15–17, 2017..
[13]
Fredrikzon, J. (2015). Search : The Problem of Privacy and Preservation. Presented at Weimar-Princeton Summer School for Media Studies, Internationales Kolleg für Kulturtechnikforschung und Medienphilosophie (IKKM), Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, June 16, 2015..

Non-peer reviewed

Articles

[14]
Fredrikzon, J. (2024). Nu tar tech-brorsorna över USA:s politik. Tidningen Vi.
[15]
Fredrikzon, J. (2023). Det krävs mänsklig erfarenhet när vi pratar om människan och maskinen. Dagens Nyheter(May 22).
[16]
Fredrikzon, J. (2023). Lämna tanken om att AI är en kamp mellan människa och maskin. Svenska Dagbladet, 19-19.
[17]
Fredrikzon, J. (2023). Lätt att hävda maskinernas överlägsenhet om man tonar ner människans insats. Dagens Nyheter.
[18]
Fredrikzon, J. (2022). Konsten att beklaga. Anekdot.
[19]
Fredrikzon, J. & et al., (2021). Abstract Machines : Interview with Gary Tomlinson. Sensorium Journal, 3, 18-27.
[20]
Fredrikzon, J. (2021). Läran om att spara och kasta. Tydningen(37/38), 42-50.
[21]
Fredrikzon, J. (2021). Review: Cybernetics: The Macy Conferences : Claus Pias (ed.), Cybernetics: The Macy Conferences 1946–1953. The Complete Transactions (Diaphanes, 2016). Sensorium Journal, 3, 56-59.
[22]
Fredrikzon, J. (2021). Övervakning eller exploatering. Glänta(3), 85-92.
[23]
Fredrikzon, J. (2017). Fotot som blev hela mänsklighetens selfie. Svenska dagbladet.
[24]
Fredrikzon, J. (2017). Molnet på jorden : Tung-Hui Hu, A prehistory of the cloud, MIT Press, 2015. Sensorium Journal, 2, 149-156.
[25]
Fredrikzon, J. (2017). Vägen, Väggen, Världen. Glänta(1), 70-86.
[26]
Fredrikzon, J. (2016). "Let I="Ishmael". Sensorium.
[27]
Fredrikzon, J. (2016). Modianos böcker föds ur mediernas oförmåga att bevara minnen. Dagens nyheter.
[28]
Fredrikzon, J. (2016). Ordbehandling som vansinne. Sensorium Journal(1), 27-43.
[29]
Fredrikzon, J. (2016). Shannons skrivmaskin. Sensorium.
[30]
Fredrikzon, J. (2016). Så blev sagan om den stora datamaskinen vår tids verklighet. Dagens nyheter.
[31]
Fredrikzon, J. (2015). Otfried Czaika, Jonas Nordin & Pelle Snickars (red.): Information som problem: Medie-analytiska texter från medeltid till framtid, Stockholm: Kungl. biblioteket & Lunds universitet, 2014. Lychnos, 270-271.
[32]
Fredrikzon, J. (2014). Maskindrömmar / Drömmaskiner : Tankens linje, om internetpionjären Ted Nelson. Hjärnstorm(115/116).

Conference papers

[33]
Fredrikzon, J. (2025). Training the Deceased : Deadbots and Technological Spiritualism. Presented at AI and Social Normativity: Rethinking Error, Bias, and Truth, 28 January 2025, UC Berkeley..
[34]
Fredrikzon, J. (2024). History as Error : Uses of the Past in Cultures of Prediction. Presented at Fehler und Nichtfunktionieren in (Digitalisierten) Gesellshaften, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Jan 15, 2024.
[35]
Fredrikzon, J. (2024). How Evolving Paradigms Reflect Technology’s Role in Law. Presented at XXXIX Nordic Conference on IT and Law, Artificial Intelligence and Legal Methods: Navigating the New Frontier, Nov 5–6, 2024, Stockholm University.
[36]
Fredrikzon, J. (2024). Re-establishing The Dialogue and Respecting the Error : How a 1980s Critique of Artificial Intelligence Can Sober up the Augmentation Discourse. Presented at TEDA ’24: The Magic Machine, Through the Prism of Art and Science, 19–20 Sep 2024, University of Cambridge..
[37]
Fredrikzon, J. (2024). The Past as Error : Archival Regimes in Cybernetics and AI. Presented at Questioning History in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, symposium at UC Berkeley, April 11–12, 2024.
[38]
Fredrikzon, J. (2023). After Wear & Tear : Working With Archival Sources That Show No 'Look of Age'. Presented at Surprising Sources: A "Tensions of Europe" (ToE) conference, arranged by The Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C²DH), Luxembourg, May 11, 2023..
[39]
Fredrikzon, J. (2023). Från drömmen om automatik till omdöme som arbete. Presented at AI som rättskälla? Konferens för Stiftelsen för Rättsinformation, Konferens 14 november 2023, Stockholm.
[40]
Fredrikzon, J. (2023). The invisible work of AI alignment and its historical foundations. In Panel: Shaping Sustainable Socio-Technical Work Futures: Cultures, Practices, and Imaginaries of Digital Professionals..

Chapters in books

[41]
Fredrikzon, J. (2024). John Durham Peters, Speaking into the Air (1999). In Stina Bengtsson; Staffan Ericson; Frik Stiernst (Ed.), Classics in Media Theory (pp. 372-389). London: Informa UK Limited.
[42]
Fredrikzon, J. (2023). Döden och författaren. In Magnus Bremmer & Lars Molin (Ed.), Bildningsboxen no. 2 (pp. 5-64). Stockholm: Norstedts Förlag.
[43]
Fredrikzon, J. (2022). Strålningsdöden : Hur vi lärde oss att leva med radioaktivitet i kroppen, i marken och över tid. In Karin Dirke, Andreas Hellerstedt, Martin Wiklund (Ed.), Dödens idéhistoria ( (1. uppl.) pp. 261-290). Stockholm: Appell förlag.
[44]
Fredrikzon, J. (2017). Förord. In Lagen och arkivet: Akternas mediehistoria. Göteborg: Glänta produktion.

Theses

[45]
Fredrikzon, J. (2021). Kretslopp av data : Miljö, befolkning, förvaltning och den tidiga digitaliseringens kulturtekniker (Doctoral thesis , Mediehistoriskt arkiv, Lund, Mediehistoriskt arkiv 50). Retrieved from http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-323304.

Other

[46]
Fredrikzon, J. (2023). MKV-podden: "Misstag", 3 Mars 2023. Södertörns högskola.
[47]
Fredrikzon, J. (2013). Sagan om den stora datamaskinen. Malmö.
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