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AI is sold as a solution to social problems, when what it is really doing is applying algorithmic morality judgements to target groups while obscuring the structural drivers of the very problems it is supposedly solving.
Resisting AI
Dan McQuillan
Meanwhile, films such as the aforementioned Tarkovsky’s Solaris and Stalker – plundered by Hollywood since as far back as Alien and Blade Runner – were produced in the ostensibly moribund conditions of the Brezhnevite Soviet state, meaning that the USSR acted as a cultural entrepreneur for Hollywood. Since it is now clear that a certain amount of stability is necessary for cultural vibrancy, the question to be asked is: how can this stability be provided, and by what agencies?
Capitalist Realism
Mark Fisher
Pasquinelli combines such historical excavation with a theoretical perspective derived from the Italian *operaismo* movement that emphasizes the agency of workers in their efforts to resist capitalist exploitation.
Fake Totalities
Rob Horning
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