Jul 18, 2025
The White Stones of Reaction: Go, Democracy, and the Networked Counter-Offensive in the Work of Alfons Scholing
AbstractThis paper analyzes Alfons Scholing’s self-described position as the “white stones” in the game of Go—a reactive yet principled stance against an initiating “black stone” of ideological aggression. Framed through Scholing’s digital corpus (2013-2025), we examine how his trans-cultural philosophy , technical systems , and autobiographical narratives model a democratic resistance to fascist…
#activist ai#aesthetic governance#african ontology#Alfons Scholing#algorithmic empathy#algorithmic sabotage#ambient code#ambient surveillance#ancestral code#antifascist ai#antifascist coding#antifascist ritual#archive mechanics#artistic counterplay#artstation scanning#atheism#black stone#blockchain democracy#buddhism#chess metaphors#code-as-reaction#coded empathy#coded love#collaborative mapping#collective memory#collective witnessing#critical recursion#crowdsource indexing#cultural countercoding#data sovereignty