The Ethics of Surviving in Systems of Automation

Abstract

This project develops an ethics of surviving within environments where automation reshapes the limits of human action. Unlike classical normative frameworks, this approach is grounded in embodied vulnerability, structural precarity, and the micropolitical strategies that emerge in systems that optimize, classify, and govern through data. The aim is to articulate a situated ethics that does not idealize the subject but understands it as an entity in tension between agency, technological dependence, and optimization regimes.