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SUMMARY:Socialism after AI
LOCATION:London School of Economics: In-person and online public event (LS
 E campus\, venue tbc to ticketholders)
DESCRIPTION:Monday 5 October 2026 6.30pm - 8pmSpeakerDr Evgeny MorozovChai
 rProfessor Lea YpiThe old socialist calculation debate asked whether marke
 ts or planners could allocate resources more rationally. But neoliberalism
  long ago shifted the terrain from calculation to creativity\, experimenta
 tion and worldmaking — and AI now radicalises that shift by enclosing th
 e infrastructures of knowledge\, culture\, judgment and imagination. This 
 lecture\, by Evgeny Morozov\, argues that AI exposes a deeper blind spot i
 n socialist thought: the absence of a robust theory of technologically-med
 iated action.The Left has struggled to grasp how human capacities\, state 
 power and technical infrastructures make one another inside the capitalist
  world-system — and how that same process might become a path from depen
 dency to emancipation. From Europe’s search for AI sovereignty to the Gl
 obal South’s long experience of technological dependence\, the question 
 is no longer only who owns the machines\, but who controls the infrastruct
 ures through which societies learn\, create\, remember\, govern and make w
 orlds.Meet our speaker and chairEvgeny Morozov is a Belarusian and Italian
  writer\, researcher\, and intellectual who studies the political and soci
 al implications of technology. He was named one of the 28 most influential
  Europeans by Politico in 2018. He is the author of The Net Delusion: The 
 Dark Side of Internet Freedom and To Save Everything\, Click Here: The Fol
 ly of Technological Solutionism (both listed among the 100 notable books o
 f the year by The New York Times). His latest podcast\, A Sense of Rebelli
 on\, came out in June 2024.Lea Ypi (@lea_ypi) is the Ralph Miliband Profes
 sor in Politics and Philosophy at LSE\, a fellow of the Wissenschaftskolle
 g zu Berlin\, and Honorary Professor at ANU. Author of Free and Indignity 
 (Penguin)\, her work has won major prizes\, including the RSL Ondaatje Pri
 ze and Leverhulme Prize\, and been translated into 35+ languages. She coed
 its Political Philosophy and writes for the FT and Guardian.More about thi
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  YouTube channel.Alternatives to Capitalism (AC) is a major new multidisci
 plinary initiative to investigate viable alternatives to capitalism and ex
 plore how political\, economic\, and cultural life might be organised beyo
 nd capitalist social relations. Led by Lea Ypi and Vincent Harting\, it br
 ings together leading scholars in political philosophy and the social scie
 nces to examine competing post-capitalist visions\, institutions\, and str
 ategies for social transformation. Through research\, public engagement\, 
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