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AI, and computationalism, in general, imposes that hegemony, insisting that all meanings can be communicated, and everything can be represented as data. But from the Kantian perspective, “the ideal of communication, of making oneself completely understood socially, requires the social acknowledgement of what cannot be made explicit in communication.” What is forgotten in reification must be retained or restored. “We have art,” Bernstein suggests, “because our ordinary communications fail to communicate what is most important to us.”
Epic Forgetting
Rob Horning
According to Žižek, capitalism in general relies on this structure of disavowal. We believe that money is only a meaningless token of no intrinsic worth, yet we act as if it has a holy value. Moreover, this behavior precisely depends upon the prior disavowal – we are able to fetishize money in our actions only because we have already taken an ironic distance towards money in our heads.
Capitalist Realism
Mark Fisher
Whatever we think of specific AI applications, accepting AI means we are implicitly signing up for an environment of pervasive data surveillance and centralized control.
Resisting AI
Dan McQuillan
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