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Darko Suvin (1979) famously proposed that SF cognitively explores potentialities incipient in a society at a given moment by focusing on a ‘novum’ (Latin for ‘new thing’) – a term he borrows from the Marxist theorist Ernst Bloch (1986 [1955]) to denote some new force appearing on the ‘front line of historical process’ (Suvin 1979: 63–84). Centring itself on the novum of AI, and thereby estranging and de-familiarizing our current reality, AI-SF conducts thought experiments about the possible directions – dizzyingly utopian, terrifyingly dystopian or depressingly mundane – of actually-existing AI-capitalism. In the case of AI-SF, the importance of these thought experiments is accentuated because of the now well-documented feedback loop between computer science and science fiction, in which scientists inspired by SF work towards the actualization of its imagined worlds.\n\nIt is, of course, quite true that there is not much thought behind many AI-SF thought experiments. Collins is properly scathing about Hollywood representations of AI as a superhuman James Bond villain or sexual manipulator. Such anthropocentric depictions obscure the profoundly ‘inhuman’ nature of AI. Techno-amplifying already familiar cultural industry tropes, they are complicit with corporate promises that AI offers us a future the same as the present, only bigger and better. However, there are also other kinds of AI-SF that are far more critical in their perspective. While composing this book we have sometimes tried to categorize such works according to which of the contending left perspectives – sceptical, accelerationist and abyssal – they might correspond to.\n\nCyberpunk AI-SF has affinities with the sceptical Marxist perspective on AI, even while it extrapolates technological capacities well beyond what the sceptics would consider plausible. This is because cyberpunk fictions give an unsparing anatomization of capital in an era of intelligent machines. They defamiliarize the squalors of actually-existing AI-capital by projection into a future where truly shining AI fuses with grimy proletarianization to yield a glistening noir. Superbly realized in the original Blade Runner (though not so much in its visually impressive yet oppressively patriarchal Blade Runner 2049 remake), this genre continues to be embellished in recent AI-SF. Judd Trichter’s novel Love in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction (2015) sends its hero on a grotesquely picaresque journey across a decaying Los Angeles where androids and humans coexist in a state of mounting antagonism and illicit liaison, seeking to recover the parts of his disassembled android lover: capital deepens its organic composition while relentlessly maintaining its domination over its fixed and variable components alike. Different in tone and pace, and original in its feminist thematics and domestic settings, yet sharing a similar problematic, is Andromeda Romano-Lax’s Plum Rains (2018). Set in 2029 Japan it deals with a confrontation between a migrant Filipina worker and an intelligent machine over the care of elderly women, opening onto a complex and melancholy meditation on precarity, colonization and slavery. Although works of this sort may end on hopeful prospects of combined android-human revolt or escape, their overall tenor is to emphasize the subjugation of AI to the brutal equation by which capital owns machines, exploits humans, and substitutes one for the other as profit dictates.\n\nintroduction: ai-capital\n\n25","previous_page":24,"next_page":26}