danmcquillan"AI is a morbid symptom of the interregnum" https://danmcquillan.org/ai_is_a_morbid_symptom_of_the_interregnum.html [0/7]
"AI is a morbid symptom of the interregnum" https://danmcquillan.org/ai_is_a_morbid_symptom_of_the_interregnum.html Let us begin from the contradiction that is AI. What does it mean that a technology which is functionally incapable of delivering on its claims continues to be the site of massive financial and strategic investment? [1/7]
This question can be answered by treating AI as a diagnostic whose failings shed light on underlying structural transformations. AI is a fake solution to real crises, especially the breakdown of the neoliberal world order & the unsettling of patriarchal subjectivity [2/7]
The particular pathologies of AI, especially scaling and accelerationism, are symptoms of the actual restructuring taking place in relation to energy politics and increasing authoritarianism. [3/7]
As a technopolitics of the interregnum, AI is a stark warning about the way hegemonic power intends to maintain control under changing conditions. It is also, therefore, a heuristic for possible alternatives. [4/7]
A movement of decomputing is one that tackles technology as the convergence of politics and subjectivity, as as raising the question of what kind of society we want to live in and who we need to be in order to inhabit that society. [5/7]
When tackling the rapacious energy and cooling demands of data centres, for example, decomputing turns the question to one of the re-socialisation of all of society’s energy and water resources. [6/7]
Decomputing calls for an infrastructural intersectionality that prefigures the material commons and the condition of care without categorisations. [7/7]
Anne Pasek@danmcquillan hell yeah. I'm also working on the AI/Energy/Fascism nexus. If time zones and modalities allow, I'd love to catch the full talk!
@Aepasek I'll post the url for the talk when I get it. Is your Cables of Resistance talk going to be streamed/recorded? Also fyi I wrote this about the AI/Fascism nexus https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/resisting-ai
Resisting AI
Resisting AI - An Anti-fascist Approach to Artificial Intelligence; Artificial Intelligence (AI) is everywhere, yet it causes damage to society in ways that can’t be fixed. Calling for the restructuring of AI, Dan McQuillan sets out an anti-fascist approach that replaces exclusions with caring and outlines new mechanisms that support collective freedom.
@danmcquillan What a precedent book! Also, count me so interested in your current de-computing research.
As for CoR, I haven't heard about streaming/recording, alas, but I'll definitely be hunting for a place to more accessibly park my thoughts...
Michael Downey 🧢@danmcquillan Will the talk be recorded/archived? Hope so.
@downey I imagine so. I haven't heard any details yet but they're on the way...