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Machines serve to contain the knowledge generated by labor practices and route it toward capitalist ends. “Being itself an embodiment of the division of labour, the machine then becomes the apparatus to discipline labour and regulate the extraction of relative surplus value,” Pasquinelli writes.
Fake Totalities
Rob Horning
Like bureaucracy, AI’s algorithms are a way of organising large systems where abstractions create a wall between a system and those it is applied to, so that the latter are reduced to a collection of disparate labels and categories. Perhaps it’s not surprising, then, that the synergy of state institutions and algorithms has already shown a tendency to scale structural violence.
AI Will Create a Thousand Post Office Scandals
Dan McQuillan
Capitalist realism as I understand it cannot be confined to art or to the quasi-propagandistic way in which advertising functions. It is more like a pervasive atmosphere, conditioning not only the production of culture but also the regulation of work and education, and acting as a kind of invisible barrier constraining thought and action.
Capitalist Realism
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