Algorithmic Capital

In 20 theses, this book develops a powerful, critical and multidimensional way of thinking about the algorithmic logic and artificial intelligence that are transforming our lives today. -- Aurélien Berthier * Agir par la Culture Magazine *
A critical theory of the profound transformations that the digital economy is bringing to modern capitalism. An essential book. -- Fred Savard * Podcast *
Jonathan Durand Folco and Jonathan Martineau offer us an intellectual and theoretical toolbox to help us better understand a whole series of phenomena that have swept through our societies over the last twenty years or so. -- Jean-Benoit Dumais * Endorsement *
The book is on a grand scale in terms of both its theoretical ambition and the considerable amount of information it contains. -- Mircea Vultur * Relations Industrielles *
A well-founded and researched argument -- Samuel Cossette * Labour/Le travail *
Algorithmic Capital does a number of important things that, in combination, make it a wonderfully pedagogical text: it draws a distinction between an ethics of AI and a critical theory of AI; it conveys a practical urgency in its form, unfurling in theses instead of chapters; and it insists that the radicality of theory lies in identifying 'the real possibilities for emancipatory action and the good life' in the social world as we find it. Most importantly, perhaps, given their central thesis that 'a theory of algorithms needs a theory of capitalism,' Martineau and Durand Folco demonstrate that if our thought is going to keep up with developments in AI, it needs to slow down. -- Beverley Best, author of The Automatic Fetish