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  1. Rethinking Posthumanist Subjectivity: Technology as Ontological Murder in European Colonialism.Thomas Dekeyser - 2024 - Theory, Culture and Society 41 (2):73-89.
    This paper centres the colonial pre-histories of ‘the digital’ to complicate posthumanist theorisations of subjectivity. Posthumanism helpfully undercuts human exceptionalism by presenting subjectivity as always-already co-constituted by technology. However, this paper argues that it insufficiently engages the human as the historico-political effect of negating the assumed non-technological colonial Other. Focusing on liberal humanism between the 16th and 19th centuries, the paper theorises the modern human as bound up in ‘technological onticide’. The presumed absence of technology became a (theo-centric, ratio-centric, bio-centric) (...)
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  • Group Agency and Artificial Intelligence.Christian List - 2021 - Philosophy and Technology (4):1-30.
    The aim of this exploratory paper is to review an under-appreciated parallel between group agency and artificial intelligence. As both phenomena involve non-human goal-directed agents that can make a difference to the social world, they raise some similar moral and regulatory challenges, which require us to rethink some of our anthropocentric moral assumptions. Are humans always responsible for those entities’ actions, or could the entities bear responsibility themselves? Could the entities engage in normative reasoning? Could they even have rights and (...)
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  • La pandemia de los datos.Daniel Innerarity - 2021 - Dilemata 35:67-72.
    RESUMEN: Una crisis como la del coronavirus, que ha tenido lugar en un entorno digitalizado, ha puesto a prueba la capacidad y los límites del big data para proporcionarnos una imagen completa de la realidad e indicaciones para gestionar la pandemia. Uno de los aprendizajes que hemos de realizar es entender que los datos reflejan la desigualdad existente y, sin una correcta interpretación, invisibilizan a los grupos más vulnerables. Para ello lo más importante es dejar de concebir la realidad social (...)
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  • Seeing like an algorithm: operative images and emergent subjects.Rebecca Uliasz - forthcoming - AI and Society:1-9.
    Algorithmic vision, the computational process of making meaning from digital images or visual information, has changed the relationship between the image and the human subject. In this paper, I explicate on the role of algorithmic vision as a technique of algorithmic governance, the organization of a population by algorithmic means. With its roots in the United States post-war cybernetic sciences, the ontological status of the computational image undergoes a shift, giving way to the hegemonic use of automated facial recognition technologies (...)
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  • Artificial intelligence and institutional critique 2.0: unexpected ways of seeing with computer vision.Gabriel Pereira & Bruno Moreschi - 2021 - AI and Society 36 (4):1201-1223.
    During 2018, as part of a research project funded by the Deviant Practice Grant, artist Bruno Moreschi and digital media researcher Gabriel Pereira worked with the Van Abbemuseum collection (Eindhoven, NL), reading their artworks through commercial image-recognition (computer vision) artificial intelligences from leading tech companies. The main takeaways were: somewhat as expected, AI is constructed through a capitalist and product-focused reading of the world (values that are embedded in this sociotechnical system); and that this process of using AI is an (...)
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  • Social media, social unfreedom.Jun Yu & João C. Magalhães - 2022 - Communications 47 (4):553-571.
    This essay addresses the moral nature of corporate social media platforms through the lenses of Axel Honneth’s concept of justice, according to which relations of mutual recognition must be institutionalized into spheres of social freedom to claim a just society. This perspective allows us to observe how platforms configure a symmetrically inverted form of ethical sphere, in which users are led to formulate non-autonomous desires that can only be realized socially. We characterize this as social unfreedom. A just platform ought (...)
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  • Smart criminal justice: exploring the use of algorithms in the Swiss criminal justice system.Monika Simmler, Simone Brunner, Giulia Canova & Kuno Schedler - 2023 - Artificial Intelligence and Law 31 (2):213-237.
    In the digital age, the use of advanced technology is becoming a new paradigm in police work, criminal justice, and the penal system. Algorithms promise to predict delinquent behaviour, identify potentially dangerous persons, and support crime investigation. Algorithm-based applications are often deployed in this context, laying the groundwork for a ‘smart criminal justice’. In this qualitative study based on 32 interviews with criminal justice and police officials, we explore the reasons why and extent to which such a smart criminal justice (...)
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  • Reading datasets: Strategies for interpreting the politics of data signification.Lindsay Poirier - 2021 - Big Data and Society 8 (2).
    All datasets emerge from and are enmeshed in power-laden semiotic systems. While emerging data ethics curriculum is supporting data science students in identifying data biases and their consequences, critical attention to the cultural histories and vested interests animating data semantics is needed to elucidate the assumptions and political commitments on which data rest, along with the externalities they produce. In this article, I introduce three modes of reading that can be engaged when studying datasets—a denotative reading, a connotative reading, and (...)
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  • Governing Corporeal Movement in India during the COVID-19 Pandemic.Pablo Holwitt - 2021 - Body and Society 27 (4):81-107.
    This article explores the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the relationship between bodies, risk and mobility. Drawing upon ethnographic data from India, it is argued that measures taken by the Indian government to contain the spread of the pandemic link mobile bodies to the notion of risk which has profound consequences for the way in which people access and engage with public spaces in Indian cities. In this process, a new type of body – the risky mobile body – (...)
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  • The price of certainty: How the politics of pandemic data demand an ethics of care.Linnet Taylor - 2020 - Big Data and Society 7 (2).
    The Covid-19 pandemic broke on a world whose grip on epistemic trust was already in disarray. The first months of the pandemic saw many governments publicly performing reliance on epidemiological and modelling expertise in order to signal that data would be the basis for justifying whatever population-level measures of control were judged necessary. But comprehensive data has not become available, and instead scientists, policymakers and the public find themselves in a situation where policy inputs determine the data available and vice (...)
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