The arrival of AI to the cities: platform urbanism and new regimes of governmentality
José Luis Blasco Ejarque, investigador predoctoral, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB). joseluis.blasco@autonoma.cat. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7675-3349
Francisco Javier Tirado, profesor titular, Departamento de Psicología Social, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB). franciscojavier.tirado@uab.cat. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7093-056X
This paper analyses “platform urbanism” as a post-biopolitical dispositive of domination and subjectivation characteristic of the “performance societies” of the 21st century. It examines how algorithmic platforms expose citizens to new control and power relations through techno-social dispositives such as artificial intelligence (AI). The authors close with the idea that the rollout of platform urbanism is a model of “algorithmic governmentality” that fosters the advent of new practices of dissent based on “open innovation”.
Key words: platform capitalism, platform urbanism, artificial intelligence (AI), biopolitics, psychopolitics, smart cities
How to cite this article: Blasco Ejarque, José Luis y Tirado, Francisco Javier. «La llegada de la IA a las ciudades: urbanismo de plataformas y nuevos regímenes de gubernamentalidad». Revista CIDOB d’Afers Internacionals, n.º 138 (diciembre de 2024), p. 195-218 DOI: doi.org/10.24241/rcai.2024.138.3.195
Revista CIDOB d’Afers Internacionals, nº 138, pp. 195-218
Cuatrimestral (septiembre-diciembre 2024)
ISSN:1133-6595 | E-ISSN:2013-035X
DOI: https://doi.org/10.24241/rcai.2024.138.3.195
Receipt date: 20.03.2024 ; Acceptance date: 02.09.2024
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