Luke Munn

From the alt-right to misogynistic incels and AI-made memes, the internet has enabled the dissemination of hate in novel and amplified forms.

What does ‘politics’ look like in a contemporary moment defined by crisis and collapse?

How is the cultural made computational?

How do workers conceptualize a platform’s algorithm and adjust their practices to its logic?

“Bossware” is software that monitors workers, tracking their activity and productivity in often hidden ways.

From pandemics to political campaigns, online misinformation has become acute.

This chapter examines the role that platform labor plays in the development of contemporary AI systems.

Large language models are rapidly being rolled out into high-stakes fields like healthcare, law, and education.

Striking, marching, resisting: this is what the ‘real’ political subject looks like.

Arora, Magee, and Munn Built heritage has been both subject and product of a gaze that has been sustained through moments of colonial fixation on ruins and monuments, technocratic examination and representation, and fetishisation by a global tourist indus…