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Automated Thinking and the Limits of Reason

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Parisi, L
Published in: Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies
October 2016

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.

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Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies

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EISSN

1552-356X

ISSN

1532-7086

Publication Date

October 2016

Volume

16

Issue

5

Start / End Page

471 / 481

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Related Subject Headings

  • Sociology
  • 2002 Cultural Studies
  • 2001 Communication and Media Studies
  • 1303 Specialist Studies in Education
 

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Parisi, L. (2016). Automated Thinking and the Limits of Reason. Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies, 16(5), 471–481. https://doi.org/10.1177/1532708616655765
Parisi, Luciana. “Automated Thinking and the Limits of Reason.” Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies 16, no. 5 (October 2016): 471–81. https://doi.org/10.1177/1532708616655765.
Parisi L. Automated Thinking and the Limits of Reason. Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies. 2016 Oct;16(5):471–81.
Parisi, Luciana. “Automated Thinking and the Limits of Reason.” Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies, vol. 16, no. 5, SAGE Publications, Oct. 2016, pp. 471–81. Crossref, doi:10.1177/1532708616655765.
Parisi L. Automated Thinking and the Limits of Reason. Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies. SAGE Publications; 2016 Oct;16(5):471–481.
Journal cover image

Published In

Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies

DOI

EISSN

1552-356X

ISSN

1532-7086

Publication Date

October 2016

Volume

16

Issue

5

Start / End Page

471 / 481

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Related Subject Headings

  • Sociology
  • 2002 Cultural Studies
  • 2001 Communication and Media Studies
  • 1303 Specialist Studies in Education