Algorithmic-imagination critiques center on exploitation, domination, and digital Taylorism

Evidence

When an emergent algorithmic imagination is considered in its own right, critiques often focus on its surreptitious role “in the organization of exploitation, domination, administration, surveillance, and the emergence of digital Taylorism” (Fuchs 2017, 856). — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 284

Categorization

  • XREF: Fits the reader’s finance-intermediate study: algorithmic governance literature parallels market-mechanism critiques. — connects to: Framing technology as autonomous disguises who profits from data extraction — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection: How Data Is…, 511; Official philosophy is reduced to a mental Taylorism serving industry; Workplace algorithmic control differs only superficially from mechanical Taylorism — Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism, 324

Broader Connections