Hannah Arendt
philosopher · 3 mentions across 3 readings
In this course
Arendt provides the course with a critical framework for understanding how totalitarianism emerges not as aberration but as a latent pathology within modern political systems, including democracies. Her concept of the "banality of evil"—developed through her analysis of Eichmann and bureaucratic complicity—recurs in the readings as a way to interrogate how contemporary AI systems and their invisible labor infrastructures can normalize and distribute harm through seemingly neutral technical processes. The readings suggest that just as Arendt exposed how ordinary administrative machinery enables atrocity, we must examine how algorithmic systems obscure the violence embedded in their operation.
Background
Hannah Arendt was a German and American historian and philosopher. She was one of the most influential political theorists of the twentieth century.
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