[acc-cca-l] New Book Announcement: Inhuman Power Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Capitalism (Pluto Press)

[james steinhoff]

I'm very pleased to announce the publication of Inhuman Power: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Capitalism (Pluto Press), by Nick Dyer-Witheford, Atle Mikkola Kjøsen and myself (James Steinhoff).

Here's the back cover blurb:

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has seen major advances in recent years. While machines were always central to the Marxist analysis of capitalism, AI is a new kind of machine that Marx could not have anticipated. Contemporary machine-learning AI allows machines to increasingly approach human capacities for perception and reasoning in narrow domains.

This book explores the relationship between Marxist theory and AI through the lenses of different theoretical concepts, including surplus-value, labour, the general conditions of production, class composition and surplus population. It argues against left accelerationism and post-Operaismo thinkers, asserting that a deeper analysis of AI produces a more complex and disturbing picture of capitalism's future than has previously been identified.

Inhuman Power argues that on its current trajectory, AI represents an ultimate weapon for capital. It will render humanity obsolete or turn it into a species of transhumans working for a wage until the heat death of the universe; a fate that is only avoidable by communist revolution.

And some links:

https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745338606/inhuman-power/
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Nick Dyer-Witheford is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Information and Media Studies at University of Western Ontario. He is author of Cyber-Marx (University of Illinois, 1999), and co-author of Digital Play (McGill-Queen's, 2003), Games of Empire (University of Minnesota Press, 2009) Cyber-Proletariat (Pluto, 2015), and the co-author of Inhuman Power (Pluto, 2019).


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The book Inhuman Power: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Capitalism, Nick Dyer-Witheford, Atle Mikkola Kjosen, and James Steinhoff is published by Pluto Press.


All the best,

James Steinhoff
PhD Candidate

Faculty of Information and Media Studies

The University of Western Ontario
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