TY - JOUR
T1 - Algorithms and Medial Efficacy
AU - Lushetich, Natasha
PY - 2020/1/13
Y1 - 2020/1/13
N2 - Today, many urgent voices warn us of impending digital totalitarianism: 24/7 surveillance; the unavoidable interlinking of medical, financial and criminal records with pernicious feedback loops; the elimination of free will (Hendricks & Vestergaard; Han). These pleas are based on the linear link between digital systems, programming, and human intention. In this article, I suggest that the problem is both more mysterious and legally more slippery and that the new enclosure arises from medial efficacy: the algorithmic ordering of time, space, objects, and action; repetition; and contagion.
AB - Today, many urgent voices warn us of impending digital totalitarianism: 24/7 surveillance; the unavoidable interlinking of medical, financial and criminal records with pernicious feedback loops; the elimination of free will (Hendricks & Vestergaard; Han). These pleas are based on the linear link between digital systems, programming, and human intention. In this article, I suggest that the problem is both more mysterious and legally more slippery and that the new enclosure arises from medial efficacy: the algorithmic ordering of time, space, objects, and action; repetition; and contagion.
UR - https://thephilosophicalsalon.com/algorithms-and-medial-efficacy/
M3 - Article
JO - The Philosophical Salon
JF - The Philosophical Salon
ER -
