[Air-L] CFP SI Eptic journal - Artificial intelligence through the lenses of Marxism and critical thinking

[Jonas Valente]

* Call for papers: Artificial intelligence through the lenses of Marxism
and critical thinking*


Artificial intelligence is a subject that has been increasingly popular in
academia, in public debates, among authorities, and in mass media.
Therefore, different knowledge fields have been dealing with it, pushing
the debate out of the limits of exact sciences and computer science.

In the fields of the humanities and social sciences, artificial
intelligence has been analyzed through different approaches, such as power
relations (Dyer-Whiteford et al., 2019), the limits of autonomy and its
relation to humankind (Davies, 2008), the impacts on the relations of
production (Benanav, 2020), the adverse effects such as in discriminatory
practices (Benjamin, 2023), and the automation of human activities in areas
such as law (Pasquale, 2019) and education (Zhai et al. 2021).

Nevertheless, it is worth noting that a significant part of these
approaches, far from the critique of political economy, falls under the
traps of fetishism (Marx, 2013, 2014, 2017) and does not reveal the
essential aspects hidden in the manifestations of the phenomenon. But there
are exceptions, such as the works of Dyer-Whiteford et al. (2019),
Lindgreen (2023), Steinhoff (2021), Gong (2021), Yi (2020), Cole et al.
(2022) and Verdegem (2021), among others. However, these kinds of efforts
need to be further expanded.

It is urgent to adopt Marxist thinking and the arms of critique to unveil
and analyze the social form that artificial intelligence assumes as an
instrument of capital, as well as an instrument of alienation and
estrangement of human labor, of labor instruments, of fruits from labor,
and, ultimately, of human essence (Marx, 2004).

Eptic Journal (ISSN 1518-2487) invites authors to submit articles to the
dossier entitled *Artificial Intelligence through the lenses of Marxism and
critical thinking.* Articles can be submitted until 16 February 2024. Texts
must follow the journal's standard format
<https://periodicos.ufs.br/eptic/announcement/view/444>.

*We will receive submissions that deal with the following subjects:*

- Labor and social relations in the realm of artificial intelligence.

- How artificial intelligence affects working relations and capitalist
exploitation in different sectors of the economy.

- Aspects of formal subsumption and real subsumption of labor under capital
in the context of artificial intelligence.

- Impacts of artificial intelligence on the technical division of labor and
the social division of labor.

- How economic agents design and/or adopt artificial intelligence
techniques.

- Policies concerning the development and use of artificial intelligence.

- The struggles in the sphere of regulation of artificial intelligence.

- How the process of production and distribution of value and wealth are
affected by the adoption of artificial intelligence.

- Dependence and economic subordination of periphery countries in relation
to countries that lead the design and use of artificial intelligence.

- Artificial intelligence as a capitalist instrument of economic, symbolic,
and political power.

- Impacts of artificial intelligence in communication and culture from
Marxist and critical perspectives.

- Ethics challenges in the field of artificial intelligence from a critical
perspective.

- Resistances and possibilities of use of artificial intelligence as an
instrument to face the capital order and its sociability.

The focus of the dossier will be theoretical and empirical analyses based
on the critique of political economy, as well as Marxist and critical
thinking.

*Deadline to submissions: 16 February, 2024*

*Editors:*
James Steinhoff - University College Dublin
Jonas Valente - Oxford Internet Institute
Rodrigo Moreno Marques - Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

Instructions for submissions are available at revistaeptic.net.br


Kind regards,

*Dr Jonas C L Valente*

Postdoctoral Researcher, Fairwork Project

Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford
-- 
Jonas Valente
http://twitter.com/jonasvalente