Posthumanism Meets Surveillance Capitalism

How to Delete the Manifest Image
Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-3-031-90769-2
Verlag: Springer Nature Switzerland

Buch, Englisch, 156 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 336 g

Reihe: Palgrave Studies in the Future of Humanity and its Successors

The core contention of this book is that, when viewed through the lens of contemporary posthuman theory, contemporary uses of AI under platform capitalism not only undermine our sense of the “human” but also our frameworks for conceptualizing ourselves as “subjects” or “selves” at all. This radical conclusion raises issues forces us to reckon with a new, disorienting horizon for critical thought at the intersection of technology and politics.

This book demonstrates that two major streams of posthuman thought—namely, accelerationism and Prometheanism—can be interpreted as attempts to liberate our desires from our reason or our rationality from our all-too-human desire, each through the offloading of various tasks to emerging technologies. But, Patrick Gamez argues, the rise of opaque, unexplainable machine learning algorithms to predict and shape our behaviour undermines the common-sense models of mind through which we ultimately make sense of both the human and the posthuman.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gamez, Patrick

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie: Allgemeines, Methoden
• Technische Wissenschaften Technik Allgemein Philosophie der Technik
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Informatik Künstliche Intelligenz
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Philosophie der Technik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1 Let There Be Light.- 2 The Price of Fire.- 3 No Rx for NRx.- 4 Prometheanism and the Scientific Image of Man.- 5 How to Delete the Manifest Image: A Political Economy of the Mind.- 6 Concluding Remarks: Defacing Thought, or, On Being Disoriented.

Über Autor(innen)

Patrick Gamez is the Director of the Reilly Dual Degree Program in Engineering/Arts & Letters, as well as Assistant Teaching Professor, in the Reilly Center for Science, Technology, and Values at the University of Notre Dame.