The knowmad alternative to neo-serfdom?
AI can expand human capability while concentrating control. The knowmad idea begins with distinctive personal knowledge and the freedom to bring it into new settings.
Topic
Big Tech
Critical perspectives on the power, platforms, and business models through which technology companies influence education and public life.
AI, coloniality, and educational sovereignty
This paper examines how artificial intelligence can reproduce colonial patterns in education and knowledge production. It calls for educational sovereignty, institutional responsibility, and more critical approaches to AI policy.
The crisis is not artificial intelligence; It is institutional imagination
This article argues that education’s central crisis is not artificial intelligence but institutional imagination. It examines why schools reproduce outdated pedagogies even when new technologies make other possibilities visible.
AI as anti-democratic infrastructure (and what education can do about it)
Alex Karp (2026), CEO of Palantir, recently framed AI as a force that will reduce the power of “highly educated, often female voters, who vote mostly Democrat,” while increasing the power of non-college-educated, working-class men.