Category: AI
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The Collapse: Bluff, Call or Raise
A story about what happens when capital figures out that the thing it was paying for (hands, legs, eyes in awkward places) doesn’t have to be replaced to be priced down. It only has to be threatened.
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The Collapse: Who Answers for the Machine?
A story about what happens when a profession figures out that the thing its clients were paying for — the reading, the drafting, the hours — never actually required a person, but the thing they were really paying for still does: someone to carry the can.
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The Concentrator’s Dilemma: Part 4
In which we examine the contradictions within the political economy of platform capitalism and AI. And where this might end. Or indeed begin.
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The Concentrator’s Dilemma: Part 3
In which we examine the contradictions within the political economy of the surveillance economy and AI. And where this might end. Or indeed begin.
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The Concentrator’s Dilemma: Part 2
In which we examine the contradictions within the political economy of the surveillance economy and AI. And where this might end. Or indeed begin.
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The Concentrator’s Dilemma: Part 1
In which we examine the contradictions within the political economy of the surveillance economy and AI. And where this might end. Or indeed begin.
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The Collapse: The Influencer Economy Automates Itself
A story about what happens when a business figures out that the thing it was paying for — attention, trust, a face people feel they know — never actually required a person attached to it.
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PIG IRON: The Great Transformation
In which we explain how Polanyi shows that the regulating mechanisms of capitalism are constructed not inevitable.
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PIG IRON 7: Learning to Think
Essays in Political Economy: In Which we Set Out the Framework for Learning to Think
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PIG IRON: Capital is Forcing Labour To Go On Strike
Essays in Dignity and Political Economy: In Which we Explore AI and the Demand Deficit Contradiction
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The Stochastic Parrot and the Armchair Progressive
On AI, the commodification of thought, and why the machine that embodies the problem might also illuminate the argument.
