Dr Mercedes Bunz

Mercedes is Professor of Digital Culture & Society, King's College London. Her research explores how digital technology transforms knowledge and with it power. She is a member of the Interdisciplinary Network for the Critical Humanities Terra Critica and co-founder of the Creative AI lab, a collaboration with the Serpentine Gallery.

Research Interest and PhD Supervision

• Critical AI studies
• Machine Learning systems and the calculation of meaning
• Governing AI & digital technologies
• Digital technologies, art, and public interests
• Digital theory & philosophies of technology

For more details, please see her full research profile.

Teaching

Mercedes teaches across a broad range of issues in digital culture and society from artificial intelligence studies to the politics of digital technologies.

Selected Publications

Bunz, M. (2022). ‘How Not to Be Governed Like That by Our Digital Technologies’, in: The Ends of Critique: Methods, Institutions, Politics, edited by K. Thiele, B. Kaiser, T. O’Leary, 179-200. London: Rowman & Littlefield. Download here.

Aradau C. and M. Bunz (2022) 'Dismantling the apparatus of domination? Left critiques of AI', in: Radical Philosophy 2.12 (Spring). Download here.

Bunz, M. (2019). ‘The Calculation of Meaning: On the Misunderstanding of new Artificial Intelligence as Culture’. Culture, Theory and Critique. Download here.

Bunz, M. and G. Meikle, (2017) The Internet of Things, Cambridge, Polity Press.