Transformation of collective intelligences / Jean-Max Noyer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Noyer, Jean-Max, author.

Series:

Information systems, web and pervasive computing series

Intellectual technologies set ; volume 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Artificial intelligence.

Knowledge, Sociology of.

Information society.

Physical Description:

x, 242 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

London : ISTE ; Hoboken, NJ : Wiley, 2016.

Summary:

The production of knowledge and intelligibility is undergoing a great transformation. The "digital fold of the world" (with the convergence of Nanotechnology, Biotechnology, Information Technology and Cognitive Science, known as NBIC) affects the collective assemblages of thought and of research, which give rise to controversial issues concerning performative science and performative society. This ongoing transformation is manifested in many forms; the compelling rise of algorithms, distributed cognition, new cartographic practices and the emergence of a new encyclopedism, which consists of whole communities of work In the form of texts, objects and hybrids. In this book, the author proposes to show how these collective intelligences relate to the coupling of ontological horizons and of the process of bio-technical maturation. The most salient characteristics of the current transformation are first described and differentiated, before a synthesis of trans- and post-humanist narratives in the perspective of the cerebralization of the human species. Finally, the modern definition of encyclopedism is questioned and explored, before an analysis of the main writing apparatuses affecting the conditions of the production and circulation of knowledge. Book jacket.

Contents:

Front Matter

Elements of the General Configuration and Adaptive Landscape of Collective Intelligences

Post- and Transhumanist Horizons

Fragmented Encyclopedism

Bibliography

Index

Other titles from iSTE in Information Systems, Web and Pervasive Computing.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781848219106

1848219105

OCLC:

950894860