1st Edition
Artificial Intelligence in the Capitalist University Academic Labour, Commodification, and Value
By John Preston
Copyright 2022
182 Pages
by
Routledge
182 Pages
by
Routledge
182 Pages
by
Routledge
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Using Marxist critique, this book explores manifestations of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Higher Education and demonstrates how it contributes to the functioning and existence of the capitalist university.
Challenging the idea that AI is a break from previous capitalist technologies, the book offers nuanced examination of the impacts of AI on the control and regulation of academic work and... Read more
1. Introduction 2. Capitalist Universities, AI and value 3. AI and the subsumption of academic labour 4. The Pixarfication of Higher Education 5. Disaster capitalism and time in the virtual university 6. AI, existential threat and the capitalist university 7. AI and the end of the capitalist university
Biography
John Preston is Professor of Sociology in the Department of Sociology, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Essex, UK.
