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The Education/EdTech Legitimation Complex

On AI, Contradiction and Managerial Capture

J. Owen Matson

The Oxford/DeepMind ‘Habermas Machine’ (from Nicholas Kees at LessWrong)   1. Introduction: The Promise and Problem of EdTech EdTech has always been eager to help. It arrives at the educational scene armed with dashboards, integrations and the kind of cheerful rhetoric usually reserved for startup pitch decks and TED talks. It promises to support teachers, […]

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Matson, J. O. (2025). The Education/EdTech Legitimation Complex: On AI, Contradiction and Managerial Capture. PESA Agora. https://pesaagora.com/columns/the-education-edtech-legitimation-complex/

J. Owen Matson

J. Owen Matson is a writer and theorist working at the intersection of cognition, media and education. He holds a PhD in English from Princeton University and is working with Michael Peters on the AIMarx Project.