Digital Totalitarianism: The Crisis of Computational Power &

关于人工智能对人类生活的影响，每天都有新的担忧出现。然而，它对人类认知的影响，以及由此产生的社会政治影响，仍然缺乏理论依据。我的博士通过对数字极权主义辩论的批判性考察介入了这种情况，在跨学科的背景下，计算能力与机械形式的认知有关。我的目标是利用法兰克福学派对工具理性批判的见解，介入当前围绕人工智能、机器学习和其他形式的无意识认知的对话。现代性一直以人类的解放和自治为规范的指南针为指导，但这受到了自动化思维方式的威胁，这种思维方式取代了人类批判理性的能力。借助媒体研究、数字媒体和数字人文学科，我的目标是展示数字如何融合了一种新形式的极权主义的趋势，这种极权主义必须受到质疑，以防止政治和文化中的激进转向。

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.