Critical Pedagogy in the Age of AI: Education, Power, and Politics of New Technologies

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

This panel investigates the intersections of AI and other digital technologies with the politics of education and the need to rethink critical pedagogy in time of computational capitalism. The papers all address questions of the human, dehumanization, power, and politics of education in an age where AI and algorithms assault consciousness, erode memory, and fuel crises of war, alienation, dispossession, fascism, and ecological chaos.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Paulo Freire

Chair

• Noah De Lissovoy, University of Texas at Austin

Papers

• Does Postdigital Critical Pedagogy Need Humanization? - Morgan Anderson, University of Northern Iowa

• The Drug Attention Education Industrial Complex - Kenneth Saltman, University of Illinois at Chicago

• AI as the Political Unconscious of Terminal Capitalism: Toward a Critical Pedagogy for Conscious Life - Alexander Means, University of Hawai‘i at Manoa

Discussant

• Sheila L. Macrine, University of Massachusetts - Dartmouth