Political Economy

Training to Exhaustion: Linguistic Labour and Model Collapse

Machine translation Language Political economy Labour LLMs

Paolo Caffoni critically examines the political economy of linguistic production in LLMs

Machine Translation as a Technology of Bordering

Machine Translation Semiotics Language Political Economy Metrics Translation Critical AI Studies Media Theory Automation

The project reconceptualizes machine translation as an epistemic and political process that produces boundaries, hierarchies, and distinct regimes of value

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 HST

Matteo 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)