The Silicon Kolkhoz.
The Silicon Kolkhoz strips away AI marketing fantasies to map the algorithmic frontline as a political arena.
We provide the asymmetric, vendor-free intelligence leaders need to protect their sovereign core and avoid the structural friction of AI disruption.
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AI as a Political Actor in Organizations
Why human capital leaders need to ditch their neoliberal glasses and put on the infrared binoculars of the political economy of AI.
By Mathieu Lajante, PhD
The Silicon Kolkhoz: A Corporate Platformization Audit Framework
Moving from technical optimization to platform political economy and risk mitigation in the frontier firm
By Mathieu Lajante, PhD
Beyond the AI Layoff Alibi
Reclaiming the moat in the age of liquidated labor
BomaliQ Risk Signal | 11
By Mathieu Lajante, PhD
The Zenith Strategy
Resisting the Silicon Kolkhoz by hiding your assets in the digital attic
BomaliQ Risk Signal | 10
By Mathieu Lajante, PhD
Free To Obey
Grandeur and decadence of the Silicon Kolkhoz managerial culture
BomaliQ Risk Signal | 9
By Mathieu Lajante, PhD
The Silicon Kolkhoz
Reclaiming operational agency from the sovereignty sink: A materialist audit of digital sharecropping, value extraction, and the rise of corporate platformization.
BomaliQ Risk Signal | 8
By Mathieu Lajante, PhD
The Algorithmic Attrition Loop
Why forcing human experts into platform-approved, colour-by-number steps is the ultimate blueprint for structural burnout.
BomaliQ Risk Signal | 7
By Mathieu Lajante, PhD
The Sovereignty Trap of Agentic AI
How do AI vendors and C-suite leaders endanger your company’s sovereignty?
BomaliQ Risk Signal | 6
By Mathieu Lajante, PhD
The Sovereignty Audit
Navigating the growing political frictions of the algorithmic frontline
BomaliQ Risk Signal | 5
By Mathieu Lajante, PhD
The Frontier Firm Mirage
Sovereignty Sinks and the Taskification Tax
BomaliQ Risk Signal | 4
By Mathieu Lajante, PhD
The Capitalist Food Chain Has Shifted
Will your organization survive the Silicon Kolkhoz?
BomaliQ Risk Signal | 3
By Mathieu Lajante, PhD
How Centralized AI Models Train Your Competitors
The Invisible Leak
BomaliQ Risk Signal | 2
By Mathieu Lajante, PhD
The Platformization of the C-Suite
From corporate leaders to high-end click workers?
BomaliQ Risk Signal | 1
By Mathieu Lajante, Ph.D