Which Smartness? Whose Intelligence? Critical Perspectives on Digital Technology and Political Subjects

Digital technology has profoundly transformed our societies, shaping the way we interact, govern, and understand ourselves as subjects and political agents. From social media to videogames and digital platforms, the digital has become much more than a means of communication and information transmission. Digital environments are now spaces for existence, work, play, and politics. In other words, the digital has merged with social and physical environments. The digitalization of environments, from homes, to cities, and even forests, reinforces the infrastructural blurring of the boundaries between physical and digital. The deeply material consequences of cyberwarfare, the digitalization of work and communication, the “Internet of Things” – all point to a general interpenetration of the digital and the physical to constitute a new hybrid milieu.

Concomitantly, the current regime of digitalization associates with the rapid growth of artificial intelligence and machine learning, their blen