In truth, Bataille seems to me far less an intellectual predicament than a sexual and religious one, transecting the lethargic suicide upon which we are all embarked. To accept his writings is an impossibility, to resist them an irrelevance. One …
People have a lot of questions about digital media. I have answers. Facial recognition technology — should be illegal. NFTs & blockchain — stupid wasteful tech. pull the plug. Facebook and Twitter — nationalize them. end data harvesting. block all …
I found the job through an online job board. I have a disability, so was looking for contracts for working from home, with flexible but full time hours. The job advertised was transcription, and as I was already transcribing in …
AI Capitalism’s Hidden Labor: How to Work for Big Tech for Less than Minimum Wage
Abstract: This essay proposes a cybernetic conception of the human body and uses the System Theory to offer a perspective of the body as a sympoietic system. A sympoietic system develops itself through interactions with other systems. The body is …
In a critical moment in which entire populations are forced to avoid any potential exposure to contagion by pursuing isolated lives in online-only mode, the conditions of work are more uncertain than ever. Magdalena Taube and Krystian Woznicki take this …
Working, Working Together, and Networking during the Web-Hype of the ‘Corona Crisis’
I said before that no one has yet patented a Meaning Machine. While that’s true in the abstract, I want to talk about the two most common ways to hack around the problem. First is labor and second is scale. Meaning …
In her book Das Zeitalter des Überwachungskapitalismus Shosana Zuboff describes Facebook & Co as the masters of radical indifference. A new accumulation logic emerges in which the surveillance capital extracts human behavior and its seemingly useless surpluses, that is, absorbs …
The radical indifference of Facebook & Co is deeply inscribed in capital
Wenn es um die langfristigen Tendenzen der AI geht, werden die Autoren in ihren Bewertungen vorsichtig, wobei durchaus ein Kapitalismus ohne Menschen vorstellbar ist, andererseits ist es auch denkbar, dass intelligente maschinelle Netze ihren Input und Output autonom darstellen und …
Um die Effekte der AI automatisierten sozialen Fabrik zu erklären, greifen die Autoren auf Bernard Stiegler zurück, der den Begriff »Grammatization« eingeführt hat, unter dem er einen Prozess versteht, durch den unsere Existenz diskret gemacht wird. Die Transformation des Sprechens …
Paper presented at “Marx’s Critique of Political Economy and the Global Crisis Today. On the 150th Anniversary of the Publication of Capital”, Hofstra University, April 6-7, 2017. “Someone once said that it is easier to imagine the end of the …
Perfect Machines: Artificial Intelligence and the Labour Theory of Value
Das Autorenteam Dyer-Whiteford, Kjösen, Steinhoff hat mit Inhuman Power ein verdienstvolles Buch zur AI (Artificial Intelligence; AI) aus marxistischer Sicht vorgelegt. AI definieren die Autoren als die Fähigkeit in einem bestimmten Zeitraum angemessene Generalisierungen auf Grundlage von limitierten Daten zu …
Rethinking agency in an AI-driven world – as the AMBIENT REVOLTS conference is trying to do – the critic Krystian Woznicki interviews social thinker Max Haiven about seminal notions of agency under AI-driven financialization. Krystian Woznicki: As you repeatedly point …
The Politics of AI-driven Financialization (Interview with Max Haiven)