The Society of Remote Control: AI and Other Intelligences
The Society of Remote Control: AI and Other Intelligences

Summary/Abstract: The paper reads the power of social media, especially Artificial Intelligence, inthe light of Foucault, and Benjamin, and, especially, Deleuze, on the society of control,as he calls it: to which this paper adds the word “remote” since this quality is even morepertinent to the present-day than Foucault’s idea of the classical Panopticon. It examinesdifferent senses of the word “intelligence,” drawing on Catherine Malabou to underscorethe idea of the brain’s “plasticity,” something ignored when the brain, and its contents, andcommunication, are treated as so much “data.” It concludes by asking what role AI mighthave in the humanities

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