Paradoxes of Being: On Western Humanist Epistemology (MAN) and the Digitization of Racial Domination and Warfare in the ‘Fourth Industrial Revolution’ using Cutting-Edge Information and Artificial Intelligence Technologies

The development of AI and the cyber-physical systems that typify it has yet to be theorized as a product of shifts in Western epistemology or had its historical links to the American military-technological revolution of the mid-20th century explored in any rigorous manner. To fill this gap in knowledge, we argue that Sylvia Wynter’s framework of MAN reveals the philosophical underpinnings of and links between Western liberal humanism, modern scientific inquiry, and racist philosophical anthropology that can explain the contemporary symbiosis between these and the application of new predictive, data and AI technologies today by Western-Liberal security apparati.