The universal subject of our time : or, how i learned to stop worrying and love the machine / Darius Nikbin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nikbin, Darius.

Contributor:

Rev. C. P. Krauth Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Artificial intelligence--Philosophy.

Artificial intelligence.

Physical Description:

vii, 153 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Winchester, UK ; Washington, D.C. : ZERO Books, 2019.

Summary:

The Subject itself is the Subject of the Machine. What does it mean to be human? We live in a technological age, where rapid advances in personal tech and the science of Artificial Intelligence are challenging us in ways never before imagined. A book in two parts, The Universal Subject of Our Time begins with an exploration of 20th Century post-modernism's undermining of subjectivity with thinkers such as Foucault, Derrida, Baudrillard and Althusser and continues with a description of the science wars, where physical realists challenged the post-modernists up to the 1990s when the intellectual conflict resulted in an uncompromising stand-off after the Sokal Hoax. In Part II the subject is resurrected by taking a look at arguments for machine intelligence and AI and also, from the perspective of physics, examines what subjectivity means, particularly in relation to black holes or black stars, and look to what lies ahead in the future, in terms of space exploration, Martian habitats and even the possibility of first contact with extra-terrestrials. -- cover

Contents:

Part I

Chapter 1 The End of the Self p. 24

Chapter 2 Science against the Post-Modern p. 37

Part II

Chapter 3 The Subject of the Machine p. 56

Chapter 4 On Human Subjectivity p. 73

Chapter 5 The Universal Subject p. 90.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rev. C. P. Krauth Fund.

Other Format:

ebook version : Nikbin, Darius. Universal subject of our time.

ISBN:

178904040X

9781789040401

OCLC:

1039175494

Publisher Number:

99979982407