Machine Decision Is Not Final
China and the History and Future of Artificial Intelligence
$58.41
- Paperback
408 pages
- Release Date
27 August 2024
Summary
Historians, media theorists, science-fiction writers, philosophers, and artists from China and elsewhere reexamine the nation’s intense engagement with AI, moving beyond the cliches that still dominate contemporary debate.
Today, visions of the contested future of AI veer between common planetary goals and a new Cold War, as culturally-specific models of intelligence, speculative traditions, and thought experiments come up against the emergence of novel forms of cognition that cannot …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781913029999 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1913029999 |
| Author: | Benjamin H. Bratton, Anna Greenspan |
| Publisher: | Urbanomic Media Ltd |
| Imprint: | Urbanomic Media Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 408 |
| Release Date: | 27 August 2024 |
| Weight: | 470g |
| Dimensions: | 33mm x 208mm x 148mm |
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About The Author
Benjamin H. Bratton
Benjamin Bratton is a philosopher, design theorist, sociologist of technology, and the author of The Stack- On Software and Sovereignty (MIT Press), and The Revenge of the Real- Politics for a Post-Pandemic World. He is Programme Director of the New Normal at Strelka Institute in Moscow, Director of the AI & Culture Research Centre at NYU Shanghai, Professor of Digital Design at the European Graduate School and of Visual Arts at the University of San Diego.
Anna Greenspan is Assistant Professor of Contemporary Global Media at NYU Shanghai. She was the founding member of the Cybernetic Cultures Research Unit at the University of Warwick, where she defended her PhD in Philosophy. Her research focuses on urban China, material culture, philosophy of technocapitalism, and emerging media.
Bogna Konior is a writer and Assistant Arts Professor at Interactive Media Arts department of NYU Shanghai. Her work examines the philosophy of technology and digital culture, and has recently focused on post-Cold World technopolitical diversity, technological determinism, and the evolution of techno-environmental media.
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