examples of older theory specifically applicable to critique AI
does anyone have specific examples where it is especially clear that 20th century (or earlier) theory, wisdom, activist lessons are relevant for critiquing contemporary digital technology or AI?
e.g. George Jackson quotes evaluating the BLM movement shortcomings well (but this isn't great because it isn't as explicitly technology). perhaps writing that applies older theory to digital movements like Arab spring, even Nepal revolution or just writings about the attention economy/seemingly "new" circumstances. anything with specific quotes, as eerily applicable as possible, would be amazing
context: trying to prove a point about how there's a lot to learn from the past even when Elders had no experience with the media we face today. kind of a counterpoint to a common leftist orientation that dismisses old philosophy as obsolete--eg "A New Philosophy Of Planetary Computation" by Benjamin Bratton: "Arguably, reality has surpassed the concepts we have available at hand to map and model it, to make and steer it. If so, then the project isn’t simply to apply philosophy to questions concerning computation technology." Obviously there's some value to this and I'm not trying to apply Plato or whatever, but I think we all know the milieu I'm trying to critique and where their emphasis is.
so yeah, help with finding examples? 🙏<3