Not anti-technology, but anti-capitalist: A critical theory of AI. An interview with Professor Simon Lindgren

In this interview, Professor Simon Lindgren – Professor of Sociology at Umeå University, Sweden, and founder of the DIGSUM Centre for Digital Social Research – reflects on the intellectual trajectories, institutional frustrations, and critical theoretical commitments that underpin his recent and forthcoming scholarship on artificial intelligence. Drawing on Critical Theory of AI (2024), the Handbook of Critical Studies of Artificial Intelligence (2023), and the forthcoming Discourse Machines (20