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Algorithms

"Algorithms of social media companies often function like the editor of a racist newspaper”-Interview with Bansree AS

Interview Bansree AS is a rationalist and content creator whose YouTube channel aims to make non hegemonic intellectual discourses accessible to the general public. In this interview he discusses how digital platforms owned by big technology companies accentuate the visibility of certain narratives while casting other voices to obscurity, reflects on anti-caste politics and the difficulty to build a space for non hegemonic ideas within the public sphere.

By Fathima Nizaruddin

The looming AI-powered cultural revolution

In Perspective Institutions of culture and knowledge are facing an existential threat from an AI-powered assault. But interpretative entities such as universities, courts, and digital platforms are not only tools of domination, but also key terrains of struggle. As algorithmic bombardment threatens to disintegrate the common sense, we have to expand the commons of sense.

By Maziar Samiee

Export: Digital Authoritarianism. A Kaleidoscope of Russia, China, and the Contemporary World Order

In Perspective The point of this petite kaleidoscope is to account for the Russian and Chinese models of digital authoritarianism and their complex ties to the international liberal order by uncovering their relations, resemblances, and differences from a historical perspective

Possibilities for Creating Thinking Spaces to Resist Right-Wing Digital Circulations

In Perspective An exploration about the ways in which right-wing digital circulations can be challenged by creating thinking spaces within communities through the use of arts-based research

By Fathima Nizaruddin

The Platform Capitalist Pandemic. An introductory inquiry into the Brazilian neoliberal management of uberization during the COVID-19 lockdown

In Perspective By connecting consumers, workers and products, digital apps have been responsible for further entrenching the Brazilian neoliberal restructuring of labour that has been going on since the 1990s.

By Fábio Luís Ferreira Nóbrega Franco