Posthumanism Meets Surveillance Capitalism: How to Delete the Manifest Image (Palgrave Studies in the Future of Humanity and its Successors)
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- Synopsis
- The core contention of this book is that, when viewed through the lens of contemporary posthuman theory, contemporary uses of AI under platform capitalism not only undermine our sense of the &“human&” but also our frameworks for conceptualizing ourselves as &“subjects&” or &“selves&” at all. This radical conclusion raises issues forces us to reckon with a new, disorienting horizon for critical thought at the intersection of technology and politics. This book demonstrates that two major streams of posthuman thought—namely, accelerationism and Prometheanism—can be interpreted as attempts to liberate our desires from our reason or our rationality from our all-too-human desire, each through the offloading of various tasks to emerging technologies. But, Patrick Gamez argues, the rise of opaque, unexplainable machine learning algorithms to predict and shape our behaviour undermines the common-sense models of mind through which we ultimately make sense of both the human and the posthuman.
- Copyright:
- 2025
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- ISBN-13:
- 9783031907708
- Related ISBNs:
- 9783031907692
- Publisher:
- Springer Nature Switzerland
- Date of Addition:
- 07/01/25
- Copyrighted By:
- The Editor
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
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- No
- Categories:
- Nonfiction, Science, Computers and Internet, Technology, Social Studies, Philosophy
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