Political Economy
The cost of language: tokenization as a metric of labor
LLMs NLP Translation Tokenisation Metrics Labour Political economyPaolo Caffoni approaches tokenisation through the epistemological problems of translation
Machine Translation as a Technology of Bordering
Machine Translation Semiotics Language Political Economy Metrics Translation Critical AI Studies Media Theory AutomationThe project reconceptualizes machine translation as an epistemic and political process that produces boundaries, hierarchies, and distinct regimes of value
Training to Exhaustion: Linguistic Labour and Model Collapse
Machine translation Language Political economy Labour LLMsPaolo Caffoni critically examines the political economy of linguistic production in LLMs
Theories of Automation from the Industrial Factory to AI Platforms: An Overview of Political Economy and History of Science and Technology
Automation Political economy STS Platforms HSTMatteo Pasquinelli evaluates the state-of-the-art in the debate on automation, advocating for a renewed dialogue between political economy and the history of science and technology (HST)
