Abstract
ABSTRACT Despite burgeoning literature on platform work, there has been a lack of scholarship which carefully considers what we mean by the terms control and (particularly) resistance in the context of algorithmic management. This article draws on Lacanian psychoanalytic theory to take a step back and interrogate what exactly we mean by these terms in a setting where increasingly the entity being resisted against is an artificially intelligent machine. This approach offers a nuanced way of thinking through the subjective effects of having an algorithm as a boss, and we argue for its benefits and applicability in the age of the algorithmic episteme. Through the key concept of the Algorithmic big Other, we update Lacan’s classic concept to consider what happens when the Other no longer articulates master signifiers through discourse. What we term collective hysterical resistance, aimed at creating spaces for new forms of knowledge and subjectivity, should re-orient towards enlarging the incomputable, the blind spot of the algorithmic episteme.
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