Matteo Pasquinelli is associate professor in Philosophy of Science at the Department of Philosophy and Cultural Heritage at Ca' Foscari University in Venice. His writing has appeared in AI and Society, e-flux, Multitudes, Radical Philosophy, and the South Atlantic Quarterly, amongst other journals.

We are surrounded by stories about AI threatening jobs, as if it were a power haunting labor from outside and above. The Eye of the Master radically challenges such a view. What Matteo Pasquinelli demonstrates is that labor is at root of the historical development of AI. Tales of expropriation and resistance, automation and struggle crisscross the pages of this passionate book, which is at same time an amazing academic achievement and a political weapon to rethink the politics of AI.

• Introduction: AI as Division of Labour1 The Material Tools of Algorithmic ThinkingPart ITHE INDUSTRIAL AGE2 Babbage and the Mechanisation of Mental Labour3 The Machinery Question4 The Origins of Marx's General Intellect5 The Abstraction of LabourPart IITHE INFORMATION AGE6 The Self-Organisation of the Cybernetic Mind7 The Automation of Pattern Recognition8 Hayek and the Epistemology of Connectionism9 Th e Invention of the PerceptronConclusion: The Automation of General Intelligence

Matteo Pasquinelli is associate professor in Philosophy of Science at the Department of Philosophy and Cultural Heritage at Ca' Foscari University in Venice. His writing has appeared in AI and Society, e-flux, Multitudes, Radical Philosophy, and the South Atlantic Quarterly, amongst other journals.

We are surrounded by stories about AI threatening jobs, as if it were a power haunting labor from outside and above. The Eye of the Master radically challenges such a view. What Matteo Pasquinelli demonstrates is that labor is at root of the historical development of AI. Tales of expropriation and resistance, automation and struggle crisscross the pages of this passionate book, which is at same time an amazing academic achievement and a political weapon to rethink the politics of AI.

• Introduction: AI as Division of Labour1 The Material Tools of Algorithmic ThinkingPart ITHE INDUSTRIAL AGE2 Babbage and the Mechanisation of Mental Labour3 The Machinery Question4 The Origins of Marx's General Intellect5 The Abstraction of LabourPart IITHE INFORMATION AGE6 The Self-Organisation of the Cybernetic Mind7 The Automation of Pattern Recognition8 Hayek and the Epistemology of Connectionism9 Th e Invention of the PerceptronConclusion: The Automation of General Intelligence

Matteo Pasquinelli is associate professor in Philosophy of Science at the Department of Philosophy and Cultural Heritage at Ca' Foscari University in Venice. His writing has appeared in AI and Society, e-flux, Multitudes, Radical Philosophy, and the South Atlantic Quarterly, amongst other journals.

We are surrounded by stories about AI threatening jobs, as if it were a power haunting labor from outside and above. The Eye of the Master radically challenges such a view. What Matteo Pasquinelli demonstrates is that labor is at root of the historical development of AI. Tales of expropriation and resistance, automation and struggle crisscross the pages of this passionate book, which is at same time an amazing academic achievement and a political weapon to rethink the politics of AI.

• Introduction: AI as Division of Labour1 The Material Tools of Algorithmic ThinkingPart ITHE INDUSTRIAL AGE2 Babbage and the Mechanisation of Mental Labour3 The Machinery Question4 The Origins of Marx's General Intellect5 The Abstraction of LabourPart IITHE INFORMATION AGE6 The Self-Organisation of the Cybernetic Mind7 The Automation of Pattern Recognition8 Hayek and the Epistemology of Connectionism9 Th e Invention of the PerceptronConclusion: The Automation of General Intelligence