Discussion group: Machine Politics – Technological Solutionism Then and Now

Can algorithms be racist? Can machines have agendas? Join us this term for an interdisciplinary reading and discussion group on the political and epistemological implications of technology, technocracy, and “solutionism” in history and today. All welcome! See here for more information and a provisional reading list.

In our first session on Monday 9th November, we will discuss Evgeny Morozov's (2013) To Save Everything, Click Here: Technology, Solutionism, and the Urge to Fix Problems that Don’t Exist.

Please email jan.eijking@balliol.ox.ac.uk to sign up.