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Papers by Aditya Nayak

Research paper thumbnail of Boredom, Time-Perception and Algorithmic Governmentality

Journal of AI Humanities, 2021

The contemporary life is organised around systems of entertainment. We are scared of boredom. Thi... more The contemporary life is organised around systems of entertainment. We are scared of boredom. This fear of boredom is not a natural fear in human beings, it began to be experienced with the dawn of modernity. Repetitive, monotonous boredom protects us from external stimuli, this is why consumer capitalism requires its absolute demolition to acquire complete control over the consciousness of its subjects. This control extends beyond product advertisement to social as well as political control.

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Research paper thumbnail of Affective Labour in the Age of Algorithms and its Political Implications

Journal of AI Humanities, 2021

This paper discusses the evolution of the concept of ‘affective labour’ in order to ... more This paper discusses the evolution of the concept of ‘affective labour’ in order to apply it to the contemporary age of algorithms. The paper studies the shift in the nature of communication in the capitalist system of production enabled by the algorithms, and how this has led to an expansion of affective production. Finally, the paper also evaluates the new system of information management and its implications for political systems.

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Research paper thumbnail of Artificial Intelligence, Automation, and Changing Forms of Work

Journal of AI Humanities, 2020

This paper critically evaluates the impact of Artificial Intelligence-based automation on the nat... more This paper critically evaluates the impact of Artificial Intelligence-based automation on the nature of work. Contrary to the conventional belief that automation replaces human-labour, or that it makes the human-labour easier, this paper argues that neither of these are true. The paper proposes an understanding where the work is neither replaced nor made easy, it only changes its form. In the process of changing its form, the new work-regime radically transforms the worker’s relations with the production process and the machine, in effect, encompassing all aspects of a worker’s time and reality. (You may send a personal request for the article)

Research paper thumbnail of Deep Learning: Shifting the Telos from Singularity to Perception

Journal of AI Humanities, 2019

This paper seeks to undertake a philosophical enquiry of Artificial Intelligence. The paper speci... more This paper seeks to undertake a philosophical enquiry of Artificial Intelligence. The paper specifically deals with Deep Reinforcement Learning, and Neural Networks. The first half of the paper shall discuss the ontology of the field of Artificial Intelligence where the discussion is primarily on the methodology used for AI while trying to locate it in the space of scientific evolution in the vocabulary of smooth and striated Space, as conceptualized by Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari. The second part of the presentation undertakes a philosophical understanding of the process of AI, i.e. the three sequential steps in developing an AI program for iterative learning and implementation, namely- representation, evaluation and optimization. This shall prepare the discussion for the vocabulary of ‘virtuality’, and ‘perception’; concepts given by Henri Bergson, and Deleuze and developed further by Brian Massumi. The presentation concludes with a prescriptive argument towards solving the problem faced by Deep Learning in understanding human subjectivity, reason, emotions, and how this can be resolved by changing the telos from ‘singularity’ to ‘perception’.
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Research paper thumbnail of Mental-Health and A.I. -A Paradigm of Human Mechanisation

Journal of AI Humanities, 2020

This paper analyses the reconfiguration of the relationship between technological apparatus and o... more This paper analyses the reconfiguration of the relationship between technological apparatus and our mental lifeworld. Technological network apparatus, particularly algorithmic networks are absorbing large domains of our life into themselves. In the process, our sense of self-identity has become fragile. We keep feeling disoriented by the overload of technological acceleration in our life in form of messages, notifications, and new methods of algorithmic monitoring of our life. Our sensory perception of reality has been hegemonised by intelligent machines. In response, the mental-health discourse identifies new mental-illnesses and their treatment procedures. However, the mental-health discourse functions on certain underlying philosophical assumptions which limit its ability to understand the contemporary real mental-problems faced by human beings. It gets trapped in its own logic. While claiming to bring the patient back into normality, it only traps humans further in the processes of human mechanisation. This paper highlights some of these issues and introspects new ways of understanding the current problem by going beyond the mental-health discourse.

Research paper thumbnail of Socio-Political Implications of Data-Centric AI and the Need for Trans-Disciplinary Framework: Studying the Big Digital-Eyes for Autonomous Vehicles

Journal of AI Humanities, 2021

Research paper thumbnail of Mental-Health and A.I. ‒A Paradigm of Human Mechanisation

Journal of AI Humanities, 2020

This paper analyses the reconfiguration of the relationship between technological apparatus and o... more This paper analyses the reconfiguration of the relationship between technological apparatus and our mental lifeworld. Technological network apparatus, particularly algorithmic networks are absorbing large domains of our life into themselves. In the process, our sense of self-identity has become fragile. We keep feeling disoriented by the overload of technological acceleration in our life in form of messages, notifications, and new methods of algorithmic monitoring of our life. Our sensory perception of reality has been hegemonised by intelligent machines. In response, the mental-health discourse identifies new mental-illnesses and their treatment procedures. However, the mental-health discourse functions on certain underlying philosophical assumptions which limit its ability to understand the contemporary real mental-problems faced by human beings. It gets trapped in its own logic. While claiming to bring the patient back into normality, it only traps humans further in the processes of human mechanisation. This paper highlights some of these issues and introspects new ways of understanding the current problem by going beyond the mental-health discourse.

(You may send a personal request for the article)

Research paper thumbnail of Artificial Intelligence, Automation, and Changing Forms of Work

Journal of AI Humanities, 2020

This paper critically evaluates the impact of Artificial Intelligence-based automation on the nat... more This paper critically evaluates the impact of Artificial Intelligence-based automation on the nature of work. Contrary to the conventional belief that automation replaces human-labour, or that it makes the human-labour easier, this paper argues that neither of these are true. The paper proposes an understanding where the work is neither replaced nor made easy, it only changes its form. In the process of changing its form, the new work-regime radically transforms the worker’s relations with the production process and the machine, in effect, encompassing all aspects of a worker’s time and reality.

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Research paper thumbnail of Media of Politics and the Politics of Media

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Research paper thumbnail of New Middle Class

Research paper thumbnail of EXPLORING THE LIMITS OF MULTITUDE

In this paper, I am trying to explore the limits of Multitude as conceptualized by Michael Hardt ... more In this paper, I am trying to explore the limits of Multitude as conceptualized by Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri which has it’s roots in Spinoza’s philosophy, by placing it in a dialogue with the theoretical critique it has received in its contrast to the People which has its roots in the works of Hobbes. I shall then try to situate Multitude in the postcolonial context.

Research paper thumbnail of Reading Deep Learning (AI) through Deleuze's syntheses of time in conjugation with Berson's 'Holographic Reality'

The paper is divided in two parts. The first part will deal with how Deep Learning is different f... more The paper is divided in two parts. The first part will deal with how Deep Learning is different from earlier forms of programming, and why I am using Deleuze and Bergson to read it. For this, I am bringing the argument on alternative science which shows that the developments in AI (to be read synonymous with “Deep Learning” for this paper) follow a post-scientific method that is closer to Deleuze and Guattari’s worldview than to Newton’s. Or in other words, AI is not a product of the modern, inductive, experimental, inferential science; rather, it is a product of the alternative science that emerged because of the postmodern theories of non-linearity, complexity, chaos, emergence, self-organisation, etc. which emerged in the 1970s and have since then been powerfully vindicated by today’s new science of computation.

Research paper thumbnail of Genealogy and history: From 'Discipline and Punish' and after

This paper deals with the question of method in Foucault with his work ‘Discipline and Punish’ as... more This paper deals with the question of method in Foucault with his work ‘Discipline and Punish’ as the vantage point. While it is true that the Foucault we have read in the postcolonial world is the import through American Academia which has given it to us with the complementary attachment of an individualistic level of analysis. And American Feminist writings are to blame for this individualist Foucault who is advocating for identity politics. We need to ask ourselves, is this the same militant Foucault of May 1968, France uprising?

Research paper thumbnail of Boredom, Time-Perception and Algorithmic Governmentality

Journal of AI Humanities, 2021

The contemporary life is organised around systems of entertainment. We are scared of boredom. Thi... more The contemporary life is organised around systems of entertainment. We are scared of boredom. This fear of boredom is not a natural fear in human beings, it began to be experienced with the dawn of modernity. Repetitive, monotonous boredom protects us from external stimuli, this is why consumer capitalism requires its absolute demolition to acquire complete control over the consciousness of its subjects. This control extends beyond product advertisement to social as well as political control.

(You may send a personal request for the article)

Research paper thumbnail of Affective Labour in the Age of Algorithms and its Political Implications

Journal of AI Humanities, 2021

This paper discusses the evolution of the concept of ‘affective labour’ in order to ... more This paper discusses the evolution of the concept of ‘affective labour’ in order to apply it to the contemporary age of algorithms. The paper studies the shift in the nature of communication in the capitalist system of production enabled by the algorithms, and how this has led to an expansion of affective production. Finally, the paper also evaluates the new system of information management and its implications for political systems.

(You may send a personal request for the paper.)

Research paper thumbnail of Artificial Intelligence, Automation, and Changing Forms of Work

Journal of AI Humanities, 2020

This paper critically evaluates the impact of Artificial Intelligence-based automation on the nat... more This paper critically evaluates the impact of Artificial Intelligence-based automation on the nature of work. Contrary to the conventional belief that automation replaces human-labour, or that it makes the human-labour easier, this paper argues that neither of these are true. The paper proposes an understanding where the work is neither replaced nor made easy, it only changes its form. In the process of changing its form, the new work-regime radically transforms the worker’s relations with the production process and the machine, in effect, encompassing all aspects of a worker’s time and reality. (You may send a personal request for the article)

Research paper thumbnail of Deep Learning: Shifting the Telos from Singularity to Perception

Journal of AI Humanities, 2019

This paper seeks to undertake a philosophical enquiry of Artificial Intelligence. The paper speci... more This paper seeks to undertake a philosophical enquiry of Artificial Intelligence. The paper specifically deals with Deep Reinforcement Learning, and Neural Networks. The first half of the paper shall discuss the ontology of the field of Artificial Intelligence where the discussion is primarily on the methodology used for AI while trying to locate it in the space of scientific evolution in the vocabulary of smooth and striated Space, as conceptualized by Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari. The second part of the presentation undertakes a philosophical understanding of the process of AI, i.e. the three sequential steps in developing an AI program for iterative learning and implementation, namely- representation, evaluation and optimization. This shall prepare the discussion for the vocabulary of ‘virtuality’, and ‘perception’; concepts given by Henri Bergson, and Deleuze and developed further by Brian Massumi. The presentation concludes with a prescriptive argument towards solving the problem faced by Deep Learning in understanding human subjectivity, reason, emotions, and how this can be resolved by changing the telos from ‘singularity’ to ‘perception’.
(You may send a personal request for the article)

Research paper thumbnail of Mental-Health and A.I. -A Paradigm of Human Mechanisation

Journal of AI Humanities, 2020

This paper analyses the reconfiguration of the relationship between technological apparatus and o... more This paper analyses the reconfiguration of the relationship between technological apparatus and our mental lifeworld. Technological network apparatus, particularly algorithmic networks are absorbing large domains of our life into themselves. In the process, our sense of self-identity has become fragile. We keep feeling disoriented by the overload of technological acceleration in our life in form of messages, notifications, and new methods of algorithmic monitoring of our life. Our sensory perception of reality has been hegemonised by intelligent machines. In response, the mental-health discourse identifies new mental-illnesses and their treatment procedures. However, the mental-health discourse functions on certain underlying philosophical assumptions which limit its ability to understand the contemporary real mental-problems faced by human beings. It gets trapped in its own logic. While claiming to bring the patient back into normality, it only traps humans further in the processes of human mechanisation. This paper highlights some of these issues and introspects new ways of understanding the current problem by going beyond the mental-health discourse.

Research paper thumbnail of Socio-Political Implications of Data-Centric AI and the Need for Trans-Disciplinary Framework: Studying the Big Digital-Eyes for Autonomous Vehicles

Journal of AI Humanities, 2021

Research paper thumbnail of Mental-Health and A.I. ‒A Paradigm of Human Mechanisation

Journal of AI Humanities, 2020

This paper analyses the reconfiguration of the relationship between technological apparatus and o... more This paper analyses the reconfiguration of the relationship between technological apparatus and our mental lifeworld. Technological network apparatus, particularly algorithmic networks are absorbing large domains of our life into themselves. In the process, our sense of self-identity has become fragile. We keep feeling disoriented by the overload of technological acceleration in our life in form of messages, notifications, and new methods of algorithmic monitoring of our life. Our sensory perception of reality has been hegemonised by intelligent machines. In response, the mental-health discourse identifies new mental-illnesses and their treatment procedures. However, the mental-health discourse functions on certain underlying philosophical assumptions which limit its ability to understand the contemporary real mental-problems faced by human beings. It gets trapped in its own logic. While claiming to bring the patient back into normality, it only traps humans further in the processes of human mechanisation. This paper highlights some of these issues and introspects new ways of understanding the current problem by going beyond the mental-health discourse.

(You may send a personal request for the article)

Research paper thumbnail of Artificial Intelligence, Automation, and Changing Forms of Work

Journal of AI Humanities, 2020

This paper critically evaluates the impact of Artificial Intelligence-based automation on the nat... more This paper critically evaluates the impact of Artificial Intelligence-based automation on the nature of work. Contrary to the conventional belief that automation replaces human-labour, or that it makes the human-labour easier, this paper argues that neither of these are true. The paper proposes an understanding where the work is neither replaced nor made easy, it only changes its form. In the process of changing its form, the new work-regime radically transforms the worker’s relations with the production process and the machine, in effect, encompassing all aspects of a worker’s time and reality.

(You may send a personal request for the article)

Research paper thumbnail of Media of Politics and the Politics of Media

Research paper thumbnail of New Middle Class

Research paper thumbnail of EXPLORING THE LIMITS OF MULTITUDE

In this paper, I am trying to explore the limits of Multitude as conceptualized by Michael Hardt ... more In this paper, I am trying to explore the limits of Multitude as conceptualized by Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri which has it’s roots in Spinoza’s philosophy, by placing it in a dialogue with the theoretical critique it has received in its contrast to the People which has its roots in the works of Hobbes. I shall then try to situate Multitude in the postcolonial context.

Research paper thumbnail of Reading Deep Learning (AI) through Deleuze's syntheses of time in conjugation with Berson's 'Holographic Reality'

The paper is divided in two parts. The first part will deal with how Deep Learning is different f... more The paper is divided in two parts. The first part will deal with how Deep Learning is different from earlier forms of programming, and why I am using Deleuze and Bergson to read it. For this, I am bringing the argument on alternative science which shows that the developments in AI (to be read synonymous with “Deep Learning” for this paper) follow a post-scientific method that is closer to Deleuze and Guattari’s worldview than to Newton’s. Or in other words, AI is not a product of the modern, inductive, experimental, inferential science; rather, it is a product of the alternative science that emerged because of the postmodern theories of non-linearity, complexity, chaos, emergence, self-organisation, etc. which emerged in the 1970s and have since then been powerfully vindicated by today’s new science of computation.

Research paper thumbnail of Genealogy and history: From 'Discipline and Punish' and after

This paper deals with the question of method in Foucault with his work ‘Discipline and Punish’ as... more This paper deals with the question of method in Foucault with his work ‘Discipline and Punish’ as the vantage point. While it is true that the Foucault we have read in the postcolonial world is the import through American Academia which has given it to us with the complementary attachment of an individualistic level of analysis. And American Feminist writings are to blame for this individualist Foucault who is advocating for identity politics. We need to ask ourselves, is this the same militant Foucault of May 1968, France uprising?