Claudia Aradau

Tobias Blanke

Professor of International Politics Claudia Aradau

Distinguished University Professor of Artificial Intelligence Tobias Blanke

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Are algorithms ruling the world today? Is artificial intelligence making life-and-death decisions? Are social media companies able to manipulate elections? As we are confronted with public and academic anxieties about unprecedented changes, this book offers a different analytical prism through which these transformations can be explored. Claudia Aradau and Tobias Blanke develop conceptual and methodological tools to understand how algorithmic operations shape the government of self and other. They explore the emergence of algorithmic reason through rationalities, materializations, and interventions, and trace how algorithmic rationalities of decomposition, recomposition, and partitioning are materialized in the construction of dangerous others, the power of platforms, and the production of economic value. The book provides a global trandisciplinary perspective on algorithmic operations, drawing on qualitative and digital methods to investigate controversies ranging from mass surveillance and the Cambridge Analytica scandal in the UK to predictive policing in the US, and from the use of facial recognition in China and drone targeting in Pakistan to the regulation of hate speech in Germany.

The New Government of Self and Other

Algorithmic Reason

Die Studie schließt eine Lücke in der Forschung zur Theorie des Bösen. Dieses ist bislang kaum in seiner Bedeutung für die politische Theorie betrachtet worden. Der Zusammenhang der Ideen von Politik und dem Bösen wird erforscht bei Hegel, Kant und anderen Philosophen, die die Debatte über das Böse in der Geschichte geprägt haben. Die Schwierigkeiten, die diese Philosophen mit einer konsistenten Theorie des Bösen haben, führt zugleich zu einer Gefahr einer Überformung der Politik durch Moral, wie sie gegenwärtig nicht allein in politischer Theorie, sondern auch in der Praxis wieder populär geworden ist.

Tobias Blanke

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