Proletarianization of the Mind:

A Media Theory of Artificial Intelligence after Simondon and Stiegler

Abstract

This article draws on Bernard Stiegler and Gilbert Simondon’s work to further interrogate the psychic, social, and political problems raised by the development of Artificial Intelligence. Stiegler’s political philosophy of time-consciousness reveals three concomitants urgencies: human memory is conditioned by industrial supplements that are increasingly disruptive, capitalism has produced an entropic condition where life on earth is threaten by toxic systems, the deployment of technologies of spirits has striped individuals of their psychic and collective individuation. I read media theory along with Simondon's philosophy to elucidate the question of mediation in today's reticulated AI-driven society.