Sci-fi - Syed Mustafa Ali

Josh and Ray sit down with Dr. Syed Mustafa Ali, author of a recent paper entitled "A Butlerian Hauntology" to unpack the dense payload of insight contained within the paper. Dr. Ali grabs threads from Dune, critical race theory and world-systems theory, political economy, political ecology, and political theology, actually existing fascism, computer science, classic Luddism, literature, film and television, labour power, and anticolonial jihad and masterfully weaves them together in a critical computing tapestry of extraordinary beauty. Gaze upon it, ye tech bros, and despair!

Mentioned in this episode:

1. Imaginary Futures from Thinking Machines to the Global Village - book by Richard Barbrook [permalink]
2. Empire of AI - book by Karen Hao
3. Aliens R Us: The Other in Science Fiction Cinema - book edited by Ziauddin Sardar and Sean Cubitt [permalink]
4. A Cyborg Manifesto - essay by Donna Haraway [permalink]
5. Artificial Intelligence Meets Natural Stupidity - paper by Drew McDermott