Critical Digital Theory
The relevance of critical theory in the digital age is linked to a continuous reflection and challenge to emerging technological and computational paradigms and their impacts on society and culture. However, critical theory has tended to be slow to take up the challenge of digital critique, and consequently the possible need to rethink its concepts and theoretical frameworks for understanding both the changing political economy but also computational culture and meanings. This encourages us to think about the future of critical theory, keeping in mind that it remains crucial to recognize, as Harry Braverman observed, that “the more science is incorporated into the labour process, the less the worker understands of the process” (Braverman 1974: 17). This insight, while originally applied to industrial labour, takes on new significance in the digital age where algorithms and artificial intelligence increasingly mediate and obscure the labour process. One way to think about this is throug
