Together, Cyberzombies and the Cognitive Rift offer a political economy of artificial intelligence. They explain how dead cognitive labor becomes infrastructural power, and how authority is consolidated through data infrastructures.
The arc runs from community cognitive work and physical labor, to privatized assets. What was once shared is hardened, stored, remixed, and returned as semi-autonomous proprietary tools.
The project traces that movement. It examines how cognition moves from social production to consolidated data infrastructure. And what does that shift mean for democracy and ecological sustainability?
Craig Van Pelt 