Realist Responses to Post-Human Society: Ex Machina 2018011022, 9780815377849, 9781351233705
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English Pages [211] Year 2019
Table of contents :
Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
List of illustrations
List of contributors
1. Introduction: Post-humanism in morphogenic societies
Sociological context: the significance of living in morphogenic societies
Vindicating humanity in morphogenic societies
Note
References
2. Bodies, persons and human enhancement: Why these distinctions matter
Introduction
What role for the body? Bodies and selfhood
Three approaches to personhood
From selfhood to personhood
Conclusion: humankind and bodily enhancement
Notes
References
3. Vulcans, Klingons, and humans: What does humanism encompass?
Introduction
The humanist target of poststructuralism
The I and the Thou
Persons
Machine anxiety
The relationality debate
How do we know?
Human rights
Conclusion
Notes
References
4. Transcending the human: Why, where, and how?
What does ‘transcending the human’ mean? The issue
Three scenarios of human evolution
The distinction human/non-human as a transcendental relation, and its enigma
How can we confront the enigma?
We need a new relational cultural matrix
The social ontology of the relation in and through which the human is transcended
When can a social form be called human?
In conclusion: the transcendence of the human lies in the social relation
Notes
References
5. Yesterday’s tomorrow today: Turing, Searle and the contested significance of artificial intelligence
Introduction
Two concepts of artificial intelligence (AI)
Shifting, adequacy and the interstitial problem
Transhumanism lower and upper case (th↔TH)
Turing, AIw and AIs: finding a question that can be answered
Playing the imitation game, substitution as seduction
Searle: AIs, semantic versus syntax and the failure of successful simulation
Dispute perpetuated through the limits of argument: designing a
successful failure and the context of ‘insufficient’
AIw and AIs: resolutely unresolved lines of inquiry
What follows from function: interstitial problems and ontology as critique
Constitution and second subcategory AIs
From Searle to real problems of ‘AI’
Function, AI, substitution, delegation and Relational Goods
Conclusion
Notes
References
6. Trans-human (life-)time: Emergent biographies and the ‘deep change’ in personal reflexivity
Introduction
Time and the post-human: an approach to trans-humanization, sociology, and cultural critique
Time categories and personal biographies: the temporal fabric of human subjectivity
Toward trans-human lifetimes
Emergent biographies and their time: a few examples
Conclusion: changing time structures and the emerging bulimic self
Notes
References
7. The evisceration of the human under digital capitalism
Introduction
The emergence of ‘big data’
The epistemology of transactional data
The politics of transactional data
Conclusion
Notes
References
8. Management and dehumanisation in late modernity
Introduction
Management and organisation studies: guilty of dehumanisation?
Management and organisation: a century of dehumanisation
How can we rehumanise organisation and management studies?
Notes
References
Index
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