Hans-Joachim Rudolph

Why Resist Even a Benevolent Order? Human Agency and the Limits of Algorithmic Authority

Resistance to an oppressive technological order is readily intelligible. Its justification becomes more demanding when an algorithmically organized society provides security, prosperity, and widespread satisfaction. Taking Max Tegmark’s future scenarios as a point of departure, t...

Resistance and Survival in an Age of Algorithmic Control : Fanaticism and Self-Determination in the Twenty-First Century

This essay examines the possibilities and limits of resistance under conditions of increasingly pervasive algorithmic control. Taking Gerhard Richter’s paintings of members of the Red Army Faction (RAF) as its point of departure, it explores the relationship between fanaticism, p...