ABSTRACT
This chapter interrogates the history of the neural net, neo-liberal economic thought, and finance in order to assess how reactionary politics, population and sex, as well as technology are being reformulated in our present. While the relationship between the Right, post-truth, suggestion algorithms, and social media has long been documented, rarely has there been extensive investigation of how ideas of choice and freedom become recast in a manner amenable to machine automation and to the particular brands of post-1970s alt-right discourses. An analysis of this history demonstrates a new logic within algorithmic and artificial intelligent rationalities that intersects with, but is also not merely a recursive repetition, of earlier histories of eugenics and racism. This situation provokes serious challenges to political action, but also to our theorisation of histories of race and sex capitalism.
