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Gabriel Azaïs: Artificial Intelligence, or the End of Technics

From Ill Will (18/04/2025) The aim of AI is not so much to replace man with the machine but to make it so that man behaves, acts like a machine, that society as a whole technicizes through a subtle play, by turns, … Continue reading

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T. J. Clark: For a left with no future

The British art historian and writer Timothy James Clark published an essay in 2012 with the New Left Review (74, March/April, 2012) that we believe remains as relevant today as it did then. Writing in the wake of the 2008 … Continue reading

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Jacques Ellul: The necessary revolution

… man must refuse to be his role, and revolution must attack all roles. In other words … revolution acts not only against organizations, institutions, systems, and structures, but also, and concurrently, against each member of this society, his behavior, … Continue reading

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