What is now ubiquitously referred to as “artificial intelligence” is in fact a diverse and quickly expanding field of technical realities and speculative possibilities. This expansion raises two pressing theoretical issues. First, as a hyperextension of its cybernetic origins, AI is establishing cultural and existential realities that do not so much challenge philosophical traditions as simply evade them; basic philosophical categories–ontological, epistemological, ethical–are neither questioned nor challenged, but simply rendered obsolete by technical processes anterior to perception. Second (and by consequence) AI has also rendered obsolete any political framework for navigating the realities it gives rise to.  Establishing any sensible politics for the age of computational intelligence requires first an archaeology (or technical philology) of the very concepts and language we anachronistically cling to in the present.