Have been re-reading my Gramsci as the complete and near total mindwarping that is on full display throughout the West - his concepts of hegemony and subalternity - the "war of position" may indeed be entering its final phase with the diminution of the value of "work" and the substitution of "AI" in the minds of the productive.
In the original Master-Slave dialectic, the Slave gains power because they possess the technical knowledge of labor; the Master becomes helpless because they only know how to consume. "AI" threatens to reverse this. By automating intellectual and creative labor, "AI" potentially strips the subaltern of their specialized knowledge.
If the subaltern no longer "owns" the expertise of their trade because an "AI" can do it, they lose the leverage they once had in the Hegelian struggle. They become "passive consumers" of a technology they neither own nor understand.
"The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters."
No, Marx was right to relativise the polarities of class struggle in order to posit the unified destiny of the otherwise polarised psyche naturalising intra and extra psychic bourgeois neurosis ad armageddon.
NY Dear Carl colonist biggest Mistake was to believe the nonsense he was spewing.
Thank you for another though provoking article.
Have been re-reading my Gramsci as the complete and near total mindwarping that is on full display throughout the West - his concepts of hegemony and subalternity - the "war of position" may indeed be entering its final phase with the diminution of the value of "work" and the substitution of "AI" in the minds of the productive.
In the original Master-Slave dialectic, the Slave gains power because they possess the technical knowledge of labor; the Master becomes helpless because they only know how to consume. "AI" threatens to reverse this. By automating intellectual and creative labor, "AI" potentially strips the subaltern of their specialized knowledge.
If the subaltern no longer "owns" the expertise of their trade because an "AI" can do it, they lose the leverage they once had in the Hegelian struggle. They become "passive consumers" of a technology they neither own nor understand.
"The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters."
No, Marx was right to relativise the polarities of class struggle in order to posit the unified destiny of the otherwise polarised psyche naturalising intra and extra psychic bourgeois neurosis ad armageddon.