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Laughing on the Brink of Humanity : An Exercise in Epihumanism.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Miernowski, Jan.
- Series:
- SUNY Series, Literature ... in Theory Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Laughter.
- Posthumanism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (293 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Albany : State University of New York Press, 2024.
- Summary:
- Stretching from antiquity to AI, a provocative study of the joyless laughter that emerges at the boundary of the human and the inhuman.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Plan of the Book
- Chapter 1 Laughing at the Death of Man
- Podchlebnik's Smile
- The Death of Man
- Thinking at the Edge of Humanity
- The Place of the Shoah
- Reading to the Dead
- At the Confines of Death and Humanity
- Chapter 2 Laughing Animals
- Wiernik's Laughter
- Compelled by Laughter and Music
- Humanist Laughter
- Deadly Laughter
- Laughing Rats
- The Risks of Language
- Laughter before Human Life
- A Stretched Membrane
- Chapter 3 Laughing (Human) Machines
- Laughing at Your Inner Machine
- Dancing Automatons and Philosophical Zombies
- Freedom Is Not a Choice
- Life Is an Explosion, and You Can Fabricate It
- This Is My (Textual) Body Given for You
- Chapter 4 Machining (Human) Laughter
- Strolling through the Uncanny Valley
- Befriending Your Device
- Imitation Game: The Artifice of Deception
- Turtles All the Way Down
- Being Intentionally Human: Imitation Game Reenacted
- The Measure of Our Uncertainty
- Laughing with One's Own Dead Self
- Chapter 5 Laughing Gods
- Laughable Messianism
- Mary's Consent
- Sarah's Laughter
- Gargamelle's Joke
- Killing God with Laughter
- Divine Buffoonery
- Surfing the Tsunami
- Rehearsing Human Sacrifice
- Chapter 6 Laughing Men
- Rites of Redemption in the Athenian Death Chamber
- Laughing at the Art of Philosophical Cleansing
- Charming Misology with Laughter
- Running out of Laughter
- The Impossibility of a Love
- To Have and to Be a Body
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Part of the metadata in this record was created by AI, based on the text of the resource.
- ISBN:
- 9798855800012
- OCLC:
- 1463070715
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