Collective Intellectualities

19 Kenneth Saltman - Beyond Bodies and Numbers: AI, Education, and the Digital Politics of Knowledge

November 17, 2023 Alex Means and Amy Sojot Season 1 Episode 19
19 Kenneth Saltman - Beyond Bodies and Numbers: AI, Education, and the Digital Politics of Knowledge
Collective Intellectualities
More Info
Collective Intellectualities
19 Kenneth Saltman - Beyond Bodies and Numbers: AI, Education, and the Digital Politics of Knowledge
Nov 17, 2023 Season 1 Episode 19
Alex Means and Amy Sojot

Kenneth J. Saltman is Professor of Educational Policy Studies at the University of Illinois Chicago. Ken’s work covers neoliberal privatization, politics of education, culture, and subjectivity in education through critical theory and critical educational tradition. He joins us on this episode of Collective Intellectualities to chat about his new book, The Alienation of Fact: Digital Educational Privatization, AI, and the False Promise of Bodies and Numbers, out now on MIT Press.

Links to selected works:
The Alienation of Fact: Digital Educational Privatization, AI, and the False Promise of Bodies and Numbers (MIT Press, 2022)
https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262544368/the-alienation-of-fact/

The Disaster of Resilience: Education, Digital Privatization, and Profiteering (Bloomsbury, 2023)
https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/disaster-of-resilience-9781350342439/

Show Notes

Kenneth J. Saltman is Professor of Educational Policy Studies at the University of Illinois Chicago. Ken’s work covers neoliberal privatization, politics of education, culture, and subjectivity in education through critical theory and critical educational tradition. He joins us on this episode of Collective Intellectualities to chat about his new book, The Alienation of Fact: Digital Educational Privatization, AI, and the False Promise of Bodies and Numbers, out now on MIT Press.

Links to selected works:
The Alienation of Fact: Digital Educational Privatization, AI, and the False Promise of Bodies and Numbers (MIT Press, 2022)
https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262544368/the-alienation-of-fact/

The Disaster of Resilience: Education, Digital Privatization, and Profiteering (Bloomsbury, 2023)
https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/disaster-of-resilience-9781350342439/