Michał Krzykwski
Philosopher, a investigator at the University of Silesia, where he heads the Centre for Critical investigation on Technology. Author and co-author of many works in the field of technology philosophy, social doctrine and critical theory. late published papers: “The request for bifurcation. “There is no alternative” (edited by Bernard Stiegler and the Internation Collective, Katowice 2023) and “The Economy and Entropy. How to get out of polycrisis?" (edited by Jerzy Hausner, Michał Krzykwski, Warsaw 2023).
Michał Krzykwski, Head of the Centre for Critical investigation on Technology, answers the questions of Rafał Górski, editor-in-chief of the civilian Affairs Week.
To do politics, you gotta dream.
Bernard Stiegler
At the end of 2025, 890 technology lobbyists operated in Brussels, while all MEPs were 720. BigTech's lobbying budget increased by 33% in 2 years, from EUR 113 million to EUR 151 million. Most of them are: Meta, Microsoft, Apple and Amazon.
Corporate Europe Observatory and LobbyControl Report
Our top civic misfortune is possibly that the full political class, having power and influence on our lives, has lost the power of dreams or almost completely succumbed to futurological discourses mixed with technosolutionism, or the belief that the best solutions to complex problems are always provided by better "technology": machine, application, algorithm.
Michał Krzykwski
- How does the usage of ChatGPT, Gemini or Grok machines affect our ability to think critically, to judge, to believe in our own competences?
- [artificial neural net] Turns input signals into output signals like a human. Or like a dog. Or any another device for processing information, physicist Andrzej Dragan.
What is computational illusion? - We have the right to uncertainty that good and life-friendly can be the state's technological policy with the Ministry of Digitalism's Digitalism Council, which includes representatives of large techs.
What does it mean that “there is always individual behind the technologies, stitching into a certain imagination of the world”?
- Are we prepared to choose wisely from the opportunities that those behind the fresh technologies give us?
- The investigation model has been transformed into a device of ideological propaganda with 2 objectives: to anticipate or disarm opposition to the imposition of automated mechanisms for regulating social relations and to hide the presence of decision makers behind an anomaly of the machine, philosopher of discipline Georges Canguilhem (1980)
Will discipline Save Us? - Technological innovation requires symmetrical capacity for political innovation at least with the same scopeAsma Mallala.
Is political innovation the solution to our problems with power- hungry owners of fresh technologies? - What crucial question has no 1 always asked you on the topics we are talking about, and what is the answer?
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