What do we become, when we talk to machines?
Talking to our machines has become a naturalized habit. In the age of ubiquitous computing, where human beings are outnumbered by machines that perform the act of talking to, with, against, and without us, it is perhaps time to ask, what this does to our understanding of being human. This talk locates this condition of talking to machines in the paradigm of ‘information overload’ and maps out for us the challenges to questions of agency, subjectivity, rights, and safety that the digital turn has posited to us. Instead of approaching the algorithmic through a pre-wired response of resistance or usage, it constructs the new terrains where questions of identity politics, social justice, and equitable societies are going to be built.