Paul Feigelfeld vs. Orit Halpern
Die Diktatur des Codes? (The Dictatorship of the Code?)

Are we already living under digital fascism, under the control of platforms watching us, dictating our pace, and spreading the worldviews of billionaires and ultraconservative technorevolutionaries? Or should we be more cautious in using the term fascism? Maybe the same tools can just as well be used for good administration and government? Does technofascism describe a regime whose contours are already emerging—or does the term obscure more than it explains? And what follows politically: regulation, refusal, alternative infrastructures, or all of these at once?

Paul Feigelfeld is a cultural and media studies scholar. His work explores transcultural approaches to media and knowledge history, as well as critical perspectives on technologies and their interfaces with art and design. He also advises art institutions and was a guest curator at the Vienna Biennale 2019.

Orit Halpern is a historian of science and a media studies scholar who works on artificial intelligence, design, politics, and the future of knowledge production. She is the author of Beautiful Data: A History of Vision and Reason since 1945 (Duke University Press, 2015) and coauthor of The Smartness Mandate (with Robert Mitchell; MIT Press, 2023).