Digital Totalitarianism: The Crisis of Computational Power &

关于人工智能对人类生活的影响，每天都有新的担忧。然而，它对人类认知的影响，以及由此产生的社会政治影响，仍然没有得到充分的理论支持。我的博士通过对关于数字极权主义的辩论的批判性审查来干预这种情况，这场辩论是在跨学科参与计算能力与认知的机械形式的背景下进行的。我的目标是运用法兰克福学派对工具理性的批判的见解，意图干预当前围绕人工智能、机器学习和其他形式的无意识认知的对话。现代性是以人类的解放和自主为信息的指南针引导的，但这受到了自动化思维方式的威胁，这些思维方式取代了人类的批判理性能力。借助媒体研究、数字8/14媒体和数字人文，我的目标是展示数字如何融入了一种新形式的极权主义的趋势，必须对这种趋势进行抗争，以防止政治和文化的倒退。

Every day new concerns arise regarding the impact ofartificial intelligence on human life. However, its effects uponhuman cognition, and the resultant socio-politicalimplications, remain under-theorised. My PhD intervenes inthis situation through a critical examination of the debate ondigital totalitarianism in the context of an interdisciplinaryengagement with computational power in relation tomechanical forms of cognition. I aim to use the insights ofthe Frankfurt School's critique of instrumental reason, withthe intention of intervening in current conversations aroundartificial intelligence, machine learning and other forms ofnon-conscious cognition. Modernity has been guided by anormative compass informed by emancipation andautonomy for human beings, yet this is threatened byautomated styles of thought which replace the humancapacity for critical reason. Drawing on media studies, digital8 / 14media and the digital humanities, I aim to show how thedigital incorporates a tendency towards a new form oftotalitarianism which must be contested to prevent aregressive turn in politics and culture.