From Autonomy to Ambiguity : Reconfiguring the Legal Landscape in the Age of AI.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

van der Sloot, Bart.

Contributor:

Edward Elgar Publishing, publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Privacy, Right of.

Identity (Psychology).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (250 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Northampton : Edward Elgar Publishing, 2026.

Summary:

In this timely book, Bart van der Sloot explores how modern technologies such as artificial intelligence and data profiling are reshaping what it means to be human. Drawing on interdisciplinary insights, he examines how digital life intensifies long-standing tensions within the human condition.

Contents:

Contents: Part I: Setting the stage

1. The end of this book

Part II: The perfect imperfection of identity construction

2. The call of the sirens

3. Ashamed of being ashamed

4. Playing ourselves

5. Trauma, memory, identity

6. Violence, narrative, motive

7. Privacy and ambiguity

Part III: The presentation of self in everyday digital life

8. Stating the obvious

9. Form and function of self-narration

10. Friction and recognition

11. Digital animism, or the homo economicus in an increasingly magical world

12. Shameless guilt tripping

13. Too much information

Part IV: Law in quest of itself

14. Right to ecology

15. Right to porosity

16. Right to contextuality

17. Right to fiction

18. Right to friction

19. Right to dependency

Part V: Reflective forethoughts

20. Fork in the road.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

1-03-539405-7

1-80037-391-0

9781035394050

OCLC:

1574024776