This research aims to (a) theorise AI and digital technologies as psycho-social infrastructures of death anxiety and political subjectivation within platform capitalism, by analysing how the platformisation of labour and social reproduction produces processes of (de-/re-) corporeisation of workers' bodies, and (b) conceptualise re-appropriation of AI and digital technologies by workers as algorithmic hacking. It foregrounds the dual function of AI: both as an instrument of capitalist dispossession and de-corporealisation, and as a potential medium for re-corporealisation, care, and collective struggle when re-appropriated by workers. Through this lens, the study explores how technology mediates the affective, material, and political dynamics of contemporary class conflict, generating antagonistic geometries of subjectivity and opening or foreclosing possibilities for worker autonomy, solidarity, and commoning.

Capitalist imaginaries depict AI as an autonomous machine whose development increasingly allows key societal operations to function without humans—namely, without living labour. The capitalist valorisation of AI through platformisation is driven by the dispossession of data generated by living labour and the intensification of exploitation via accelerated social rhythms and entrepreneurialisation of work. Workers experience themselves as dispensable, undergo processes of competitive individualisation and internalise command under algorithmic governance. The algorithms operate as technical vectors of death anxiety, which is channeled onto the natural body of workers who experience it in individual isolation. Workers may endure these pressures only through de-corporealisation—by displacing death anxiety onto other workers and repressing the structural violence of capital. This dynamic reinforces algorithmic governance through obedience and competition.

This process is reversed when workers appropriate technological tools, AI included, to contest dispossession and exploitation and cultivate resistance, generating social movements and labour struggle. Using machines to organise solidarity and struggle and to produce an imaginary whereby workers' bodies are autonomous and central to societal operations functions as algorithmic hacking that reverses the flows of death anxiety. Resistance against capital is thus sustained through the re-corporealising processes, namely the recognition of capitalist violence and displacement of death anxiety onto capitalist relations: this allows the reproduction of antagonistic conflict through autonomy and solidarity. The crucial point here is that algorithms are used to recognise and displace common violence, connecting bodies beyond isolation towards liberation. Technology then emerges as a space that allows the reproduction of relations of care for natural bodies and of struggle for the commons whose development rests on the material practices and everyday experiences of solidarity and struggle of workers.