Tech Anxiety

Artificial Intelligence and Ontological Awakening in Four Science Fiction Novels

Häftad, Engelska, 2013

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Beskrivning

This project examines the representation of anxiety about technology that humans feel when encountering artificial intelligences in four science fiction novels: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Neuromancer, 2001: A Space Odyssey, and Cloud Atlas. By exploring this anxiety, something profound can be revealed about what it means to be a person living in a technologically saturated society. While many critical investigations of these novels focus on the dangerous and negative implications of artificial intelligence, this work uses Martin Heidegger's later writings on technology to argue that AIs might be more usefully read as catalysts for a reawakening of human thought.

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Utgivningsdatum:2013-06-11
Mått:152 x 229 x 13 mm
Vikt:354 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:252
Förlag:McFarland & Co Inc
ISBN:9780786466481

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Christopher A. Sims received a Ph.D. in literature from Ohio University. He lives in Columbus, Ohio, and teaches at Columbus State Community College. His scholarship explores the human relationship to technology in literature.

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Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Heideggerian Technology Studies2. HAL as Human Savior in Arthur C. Clarke’s 2001: A Space Odyssey3. The Dangers of Individualism and the Human Relationship to Technology in Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?4. AIs, Hatred of the Body, Cyborgs and Salvation in William Gibson’s Neuromancer5. David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas: Cloned AIs as the Leaders of an Ontological InsurrectionConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex