Faculty of Art

Drawing and Painting

Fiona Enright

A Smoking Gun/Encyclopedia of Firearms.

"The inclination to treat algorithms as conscious beings in lieu of discussing its creator(s) is, in itself, not neutral. It is not just a grammatical slip-up. Surveillance Capitalists,...want us to think that their practices are inevitable expressions of the technologies they employ...surveillance capitalism employs many technologies, but it cannot be equated with any technology...It produces and relies on algorithms, but it is not the same as algorithms. (Zuboff, Shoshana. The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for A Human Future at The New Frontier of Power. Publicaffairs. March 3, 2020. Print. 15-16).This anthropomorphizing grammatical fallacy is beneficial to surveillance capitalists – it allows them to continue with their practices unnoticed and unobstructed." Fiona Enright. 'Section IV, Part b' The Human Element: Information, Knowledge and Art in the Digital Episteme. 2021.