Parisi, Luciana. 2016. Automated Thinking and the Limits of Reason. Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies, 16(5), pp. 471-481. ISSN 1532-7086 [Article]

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This article reflects on how the ingression of computation in culture has not only transformed media into algorithmic devices but has also, more importantly, led to the automation of the most precious faculty of the human, namely, reasoning. This article problematizes the tout court refusal of algorithmic thinking as thinking and suggests that we are witnessing the advance of a dynamic form of automated reasoning, exposing the limits of the critical approach toward the calculative. The article points out that the alliance between algorithmic automation and the digital infrastructure of neoliberalism is not without significance, but attention must be paid to the specific posthuman form of cognitive capitalism.

Item Type:	Article
Identification Number (DOI):	https://doi.org/10.1177/1532708616655765
Keywords:	automation, deductive method, inferential reasoning, evolutionary computation, logic of continuity
Departments, Centres and Research Units:	Centre for Cultural Studies (1998-2017)
Dates:	Date Event 7 July 2016 Published Online 12 December 2015 Accepted
Item ID:	18705
Date Deposited:	12 Jul 2016 14:42
Last Modified:	07 Mar 2019 15:05
Peer Reviewed:	Yes, this version has been peer-reviewed.
URI:	https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/18705

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