The birth of sensory power : doing things with words, numbers and neurons / Engin Isin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Isin, Engin F. (Engin Fahri), 1959- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Power (Philosophy).

Artificial intelligence.

Machine learning.

artificial intelligence.

Artificial intelligence--Social aspects.

Power (Social sciences)--Philosophy.

Power (Social sciences).

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2025]

Summary:

"This book examines the transformation of historical forms of power and the emergence of new polities and citizen-subjects produced by a new form of power – sensory power – in the 21st century. Engin Isin highlights how sensory power, driven by artificial intelligence and machine learning, transforms historical forms of power (sovereign, disciplinary and regulative), reconfigures cities, states, and empires, and engenders the autopoietic subject. Drawing from thinkers like Spinoza, Nietzsche, Deleuze, and Foucault, and reworking their theories of power with Austin and Derrida, the book offers a critical perspective on these changes"-- De Gruyter Brill.

How have datasciences and neurosciences converged to create a new form of power, polity and citizenship?

Contents:

Introduction : the games we play

How to do things with power : words, numbers, neurons

Doing things with numbers : datasciences

Doing things with neurons : neurosciences

The autopoietic subject

Conclusion : what games shall we play?.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (De Gruyter Brill, viewed January 5, 2026).

Other Format:

Print version: Isin, Engin F. (Engin Fahri), 1959- Birth of sensory power

ISBN:

9781399535489

139953548X

9781399535472

1399535471

OCLC:

1540952777

Publisher Number:

CIPO000292015

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license