New Lines of Conflict and Algorithmic Acceleration

Presentation of a research project as part of the "Jeudis de la Maison Suger", a residents' research seminar.

This session will welcome Giuseppe Cocco for a discussion on new lines of conflict generated by algorithmic acceleration. Drawing on recent technological changes and issues of sovereignty, the presentation will emphasise the role of the state in a context shaped by the pandemic and the war in Europe.

Presentation of the project

"Algorithmic acceleration, which has been unfolding since the early 2010s with the advances in deep learning techniques, reached a new threshold with, on the one hand, the arrival of ChatGPT (by OpenAI) and, on the other, the involvement of some major Silicon Valley Big Tech executives in the Trump 2.0 administration. The suspension of Twitter/X by the Brazilian judiciary and European regulatory initiatives appear to be creating new divides, bringing issues of sovereignty and the role of the state back to the forefront. Drawing on the experiences of the pandemic and the war in Europe, this presentation will explore the emergence of new lines of conflict."

Speakers

• Giuseppe Cocco is a full professor at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, a member of the postgraduate program at the School of Communication and the Information Sciences program (Ibict), a researcher at CNPq, and a CNE at Faperj. He is editor of the journals Lugar comum (Rio de Janeiro) and Multitudes (Paris). He has published, with Antonio Negri, the works GlobAL: Biopower and Struggles in a Globalized Latin America (Record: 2005) and, with Bruno Cava, New Neoliberalism and the Other. Biopower, Anthropophagy and Living Money, Lexington, 2018.
   
• Discussant: Allan Deneuville: Researcher and Lecturer at the University of Bordeaux-Montaigne