Today, when we look to the horizon what do we see? For increasing numbers of people both inside and outside of the tech world, what they see is a horizon of technological acceleration, and it is hurtling towards them.
Originating from the centres of computation, AI research, and academia, the experience of historical acceleration has seeped out more widely: into the institutions and cultures that today constitute contemporary Western society.
I’ve just begun a new research project into what accelerationist thinking does to political theory and ideals. As part of this, I am examining the history and politics of computing and AI from the 1940s to the present.
Read more:
Kessler, A. (2024). Longtermism, Big Tech and the Rebalancing of Historical Time: A Benjaminian Critique. International Journal of Communication. Vol 18. https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/22480
The Elite Contradictions of Generative AI (With Nick Couldry)
(LSE Media – December 2024)
Asher Kessler 