Algorithmic Capital

Jonathan Martineau is Associate Professor at the Liberal Arts College, Concordia University, Montreal, and Director of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research on Time, Technology and Capitalism (CIRTTC - cirttc.org). He specializes in the history of ideas, political economy, critical theory and technology studies. He is the author of Time, Capitalism and Alienation and editor of Marxisme anglo-saxon. Figures contemporaines.Jonathan Durand Folco is Associate Professor at the School for Social Innovation, St Paul University, Ottawa. He specializes in political philosophy, critical theory, democracy studies and social innovation. He is the author of Réinventer la démocratie and À nous la ville! Traité de municipalisme.

In 20 theses, this book develops a powerful, critical and multidimensional way of thinking about the algorithmic logic and artificial intelligence that are transforming our lives today.

• Thesis 1We Need a Critical Theory of AlgorithmsThesis 2A Theory of Algorithms Needs a Theory of CapitalismThesis 3Algorithms Accelerate Time and Keep us Glued to our ScreensThesis 4Algorithms are Machines for Extraction, Prediction and Manipulation Thesis 5AI Isn't Abolishing Work, But Reorganizing and Exploiting itThesis 6 Algorithmic Technologies Are Colonizing the Domestic Sphere, Housework, Care and Emotional LaborThesis 7 Big Data and Machine Learning are the Main drivers of Algorithmic Capital Thesis 8Neoliberalism Is Giving Way to a New Stage of CapitalismThesis 9A New Form of Power Is Emerging: Algorithmic GovernmentalityThesis 10The Algorithmic Logic Extends to the State, the Public Administration and the PoliceThesis 11Algorithmic Capital Disrupts and Erodes Democratic LifeThesis 12Algorithmic Capital Is Helping to Reshape the International OrderThesis 13The Siliconization of the World Is Continuing ApaceThesis 14The Global Pandemic Brought a Great Leap Forward for Algorithmic CapitalismThesis 15Algorithms Won't Save Us from Climate CrisisThesis 16Algorithms Are Changing Socialization Processes and Intimate Relationships, And Shaping New SubjectivitiesThesis 17Algorithms Are Generating New Forms of AlienationThesis 18We Should Resist Algorithmic Capital - And Support the Struggles That Are DevelopingThesis 19We Must Find the Virtues in Technologies and Criticize Their VicesThesis 20We Need Technosober Democratic Planning - Reining in Algorithms and Tightening the Limits of the Digital WorldConclusionIndex