Martin / Willemars The Replaceability Paradigm

Replacement and Irreplaceability from Dante to DeepDream
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-3-11-128640-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 26, 261 Seiten

Reihe: Culture & Conflict

The trope of humans being ‘replaced’ by ‘AI’ is one of the most familiar examples of the rhetoric of replaceability. Not only have questions about what is unique and what is replaceable gained momentum in digital culture, but notions of ‘fungibility’ have emerged in many other contexts as well such as ecology, management theory, and, more sinisterly, in racist and conspiracist thinking. This volume argues that there is a ‘replaceability paradigm’ at work throughout the culture of modernity, from the European Renaissance, through Freudian psychoanalysis, Chinese science fiction and postcolonial theory, all the way to neural network programs such as Google’s DeepDream. This collection will be of interest to anybody engaged with the conceptual architecture of contemporary culture, whether through film, literature, or new digital media.

Zielgruppe

Scholars of cultural studies and the Humanities.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Martin, Niall

Willemars, Ilios

Über Autor(innen)

Niall Martin , University of Amsterdam, Netherlands; Ilios Willemars, Leiden University, Netherlands.