Matteo Pasquinelli

news

The Eye of the Master: A Social History of Artificial Intelligence won the Deutscher Memorial Prize 2024 for the best book in the tradition of critical theory.

texts

• Theories of Automation from the Industrial Factory to AI Platforms: An Overview of Political Economy and History of Science and Technology
  Tecnoscienza 15(1), 2024.
• Beyond the Schism of Value Form and Labor Form in AI Studies and the Humanities: A Response to Critical Inquiry
  A response to Critical Inquiry’s review of The Eye of the Master.
• The Eye of the Master: A Social History of Artificial Intelligence
  Verso Books, 2023. Winner Deutscher Prize 2024.
• Labour, Energy, and Information as Historical Configurations: Notes for a Political Metrology of the Anthropocene
  Journal of Interdisciplinary History of Ideas, 11(22), 2023.
• From Algorism to Algorithm: A Brief History of Calculation from the Middle Ages to the Present Day
  Electra magazine (Portugal), Winter 2021-2022.
• How to Make a Class: Hayek’s Neoliberalism and the Origins of Connectionism
  Qui Parle journal, June 2021.
• The Nooscope Manifested: Artificial Intelligence as Instrument of Knowledge Extractivism
  AI and Society, November 2020.
• On the origins of Marx’s general intellect
  Radical Philosophy #206 Winter 2019.
• How a Machine Learns and Fails: A Grammar of Error for Artificial Intelligence
  Spheres journal #6 “The Spectre of Artificial Intelligence”
• 3000 Years of Algorithmic Rituals: The Emergence of AI from the Computation of Space
  e-flux journal #101, June 2019.
• Metadata Society
  Keyword entry for the Posthuman Glossary edited by Braidotti and Hlavajova.
• Machines that Morph Logic: Neural Networks and the Distorted Automation of Intelligence as Statistical Inference
  Out now for Glass Bead journal