Michael Betancourt is a critical theorist and research artistconcerned with digital technology and capitalist ideology.His writing considers the social and cultural impacts of AI,Bitcoin, surveillance, and Universal Basic Income (inter alia) asreflections of structural demands implicit in how the EuropeanEnlightenment informs both historical industrial capitalism andcontemporary digital technology. His writing has been translatedinto Chinese, French, German, Greek, Italian, Korean, Persian,Portuguese, and Spanish.His online archive is located at michaelbetancourt.com