Category: Technology
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AI Chatbots: Hype Meets Reality
Artificial Intelligence (AI) seems to be everywhere. Companies use powerful AI chatbots on their webpages or phone systems to handle customer questions. Newsrooms and magazines use them to write stories. … Keep reading »
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Automating Creativity? Questioning AI’s Impact on the Arts
Dr. Tanner Mirrlees’s keynote for Hot Docs Teachers’ Conference on the topic of generative AI and automation in the creative industries and higher education. The keynote focuses on the disruption … Watch video »
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Replacing the Capitalist Dream of AI-Driven Profits
When asked to share alternatives to capitalism, ChatGPT offered many options, none of which rely on the fantasy that money hoarding at the top can eventually benefit the rest of us. Keep reading »
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The Big Tech Monopolies and the State /w Grace Blakeley
As the effects of the coronavirus pandemic swept through the global economy, the average observer could have been forgiven for missing a critical piece of news: by May 2020, the … Watch video »
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Capitalism’s Wet Dream: Amazon’s Patents Signal the Future It Hopes to Achieve
In anticipation of increasing robotization, two poles tend to emerge within discussions about the future of work: at one end, a post-work utopia of fully automated abundance; at the other, … Keep reading »
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Socialists on Social Media Platforms and Imagining Platform Socialism
Bertolt Brecht, in the 1932 essay “The Radio as an Apparatus of Communication,” made a “positive suggestion” to transform radio into a dialogical medium for many-to-many communications. “Radio is one-sided … Watch video »
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SR 2021: Interpretation Machines /w Larry Lohmann
Since the nineteenth century, left movements have sought footholds among the ever-renewing contradictions of capitalist industrial mechanization and its relation to work and energy. These experiments, begun by Marx, remain … Watch video »
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SR 2021: The Time of Our Lives /w Bryan Palmer
Will time continue to be compressed into capital’s needs, or will it be reimagined as liberation, struggled through and over in ways that enhance the project of human emancipation? Watch video »
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Capitalizing on the COVID Crisis: the Ford Government’s Move to Privatize Public Education for EdTech
In The Shock Doctrine, Naomi Klein demonstrated how neoliberalism was not always advanced in society through democracy, but was instead pushed on society by powerful elites behind the public’s back … Keep reading »
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Beyond Digital Capitalism
MEP SR21 Beyond Digital Capitalism Series Moderated by Michael Lardner. Presentations by: Stephen Maher: “Remembering Leo Panitch and Beyond Capitalism.” Stephen is a Post-Doctoral Fellow at Ontario Tech University in Oshawa, … Watch video »
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UK Launch of The Socialist Register 2021: Beyond Digital Capitalism
As digital technology became integral to the capitalist market dystopia of the first decades of the 21st century, it not only refashioned our ways of communicating but of working and … Watch video »
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Ghoulish EdTech Innovations
We speak with Tanner Mirrlees about the dark and underdiscussed world of education technology and the information communication technology (ICT) industry. Listen to audio »