3. AIEEE!*

This chapter proposes to rename ‘learning management system’ (LMS) software as Accessible Insidious Extractive Everywhere Education, with AIEEE! as the acronym. It argues that these template digital containers for online course management are tools of surveillance capitalism that have introduced automated culture into higher education, enabling institutions to sell ‘education’ in bulk while reducing the presence of living, embodied teachers and students. These technologies promise accessibility, afford an insidious and inhumane pedagogy, extract labour from teachers and students for the profit of corporations, exercise their power everywhere in students’ and teachers’ lives, and have profoundly altered the conditions of education in the twenty-first century. The chapter describes each of these aspects of AIEEE! technology in turn, and then asks if an escape from their seemingly inevitable hold on higher education is possible.