Will Silicon Valley Survive the Death of MAGA?

This weekend, the Bainbridge Island Film Festival presents Ghost in the Machine—a documentary whose value has been significantly increased by the results of last week’s midterm elections. Directed, written, and produced by Valerie Veatch (who was interviewed by The Stranger in May), the film concerns the origins of artificial intelligence, which the film traces back to 19th century eugenics, a project that provided no insights on the nature and structure of human mental capacities but simply justified the colonial (and therefore racist) expansion of European capital. The documentary also explores the rise and economic mythologizing of Silicon Valley, the environmental impact of data centers, the exploitation of Black African immaterial labor (particularly in countries colonized by the British), and the first half of Trump’s second term in office, which has been defined by a very close alliance between Big Tech and the White House.

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