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SUMMARY:Literary Studies (in the Humanities) in the Age of AI\, Populism an
 d Anti-Academic Resentment
DESCRIPTION:Lecture and Discussion: 'Dual Use' of Humanities Concepts? AI\,
  Surveillance Technology and the Politics of Big Tech - The Case of Peter 
 Thiel\, Alex Karp and Palantir.  (Palantir: One of the most successful\, m
 ysterious and controversial companies\, co-founded and still supported by 
 anti-democratic right-winger Peter Thiel and criticized almost from the st
 art for helping to bring about the surveillance state and\, more recently\
 , for openly providing software support for ICE deportations. From its inc
 eption over 20 years ago\, however\, Palantir’s CEO has been Alex Karp\,
  long a self-identified “socialist”\, “Marxist” or “leftist”\,
  who studied with Habermas in the late 1990s and who holds a 2002 PhD in s
 ocial psychology from Frankfurt. This raises a number of questions: How do
 es Karp use humanities concepts and figures of thought to “justify” Pa
 lantir’s business? Can we trace a line from his “leftist” Frankfurt 
 school dissertation to his accounts of Palantir’s business model\, and t
 o his recent techno-nationalist positions? And is the notion of “dual us
 e” of humanities ideas – the appropriation of originally “progressiv
 e” concepts for potentially illiberal\, anti-democratic or authoritarian
  purposes – merely provocative\, or is it analytically useful?)
LOCATION:R11 T00 D01\, Campus Essen\, Universitätsstr. 2\, Essen
URL:https://wissenschaft-gegen-faschismus.de/veranstaltungen/literary-studi
 es-in-the-humanities-in-the-age-of-ai-populism-and-anti-academic-resentmen
 t-4b5402
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