Pierre Bourdieu

philosopher · 2 mentions across 2 readings

In this course

Bourdieu appears to be invoked here in discussions of economy and value systems beyond narrow individualist or commodity-based frameworks, suggesting his concept of cultural capital and field theory offer tools for understanding AI as more than technical infrastructure—as a system of knowledge production and social organization with embedded hierarchies. The excerpts hint that Bourdieu's work helps ground critiques of AI as a political project rather than a neutral tool, allowing course readings to examine how AI systems reproduce or reshape forms of symbolic and social power.

Mentioned in 2 readings

Dan McQuillan

from Resisting AI, an Anti-fascist Approach to Artificial Intelligence

AI, as we know it, is a kind of computing, but it’s also a form of knowledge production, a paradigm for social organization and a political project. While it might be interesting in another context to ask philosophical questions about the m…

Tiqqun

The Cybernetic Hypothesis (2001)

Whether it merely breaks with the individualist premises about economy or whether it considers the commodity economy as a regional component of a more general economy - which is what’s implied in all the discussions about the notion of valu…

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