Disintegrator Information

What happens when humans are finally removed from the loop? Disintegrator is an independent research lab focused on the frontiers of cybernetics, game theory, and human-machine interfaces. We build and design the tools that future humans will use to navigate a world populated by fully autonomous recursively self-improving systems. Agentic AI is not intentionally designed. Instead, it is resolved from a series of constraints related to compute, market dynamics, and geopolitics. Agentic AI is not built for controllability or governability. Instead, it is emerging from a series of predictable path-dependencies. The task at hand has less to do with reengineering the agentic turn from first principles, but rather to build tools for control and governance that are resilient to any likely outcome. Disintegrator was born from the recognition of a gap between technology and its theorization. Production and development are significantly outpacing the techniques through which humans understand what it is exactly that they have built. We began by addressing this gap, building theory and design objects and facilitating otherwise-missing conversations between industry, the frontiers of philosophy (especially the philosophy of science and of theoretical computer science), and the frontiers of the humanities (especially the critical analysis of media, and of the generations of new modes of social organization). Led by Marek Poliks and Roberto Alonso Trillo, it published Choreomata (CRC Press, 2023) and Exocapitalism (Becoming Press, 2025), produces the Disintegrator podcast — "the most sophisticated conversations about AI going" (Novara Media) — and won Google's 2024 Art + Machine Intelligence award. Our focus has now shifted from critique to construction with the upcoming publication of The Superdark Factory: Toward the Full Automation of Software (Antikythera, MIT Press), which provides schematics for the governance of the first completely machine-facing software factory.