Tech Anxiety: Artificial Intelligence and Ontological Awakening in Four Science Fiction Novels - Couverture souple

Sims, Christopher A.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0786466480 ISBN 13 : 9780786466481

Editeur : McFarland & Co Inc, 2013

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Christopher A. Sims received a Ph.D. in literature from Ohio University, where he is a post-doctoral fellow. He lives in Columbus, Ohio.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: McFarland & Co Inc
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0786466480
• ISBN 13: 9780786466481
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 252
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• Personne responsable: non disponible