Post-Human Institutions and Organizations

Confronting the Matrix

Ismael Al-Amoudi, Emmanuel Lazega (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

164 Seiten

2019
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-8153-7794-8 (ISBN)

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This volume explores the social representations and significance of technological developments – especially AI and human enhancement – that have started to transform our human agency. It uses these developments to revisit theories of the human mind and its essential characteristics: a first person perspective, concerns and reflexivity.

When the Matrix trilogy was published in the mid-1980s, it introduced to mass culture a number of post-human tropes about the conscious machines that have haunted our collective imaginaries ever since. This volume explores the social representations and significance of technological developments – especially AI and human enhancement – that have started to transform our human agency. It uses these developments to revisit theories of the human mind and its essential characteristics: a first-person perspective, concerns and reflexivity. It looks at how the smart machines are used as agents of change in the basic institutions and organisations that hold contemporary societies together, for example in the family and the household, in commercial corporations, in health institutions or in the military. Its main purpose is to enrich the ongoing public discussion of the social and political implications of the smart machines by looking at the extent to which they further digitalise and bureaucratise the world, in particular by asking whether they are used to develop techno-totalitarian societies that corrode normativity and solidarity.

Ismael Al-Amoudi is Professor at Grenoble Ecole de Management, Univ Grenoble Alpes ComUE, France. Emmanuel Lazega is Professor at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po), France.

1. Introduction: Digital Society’s Techno-totalitarian Matrix 2. What They Are Saying About Artificial Intelligence and Human Enhancement 3. Considering AI Personhood 4. Post-Human Sociality: Morphing Experience and Emergent Forms 5. The Digital Matrix and The Hybridisation of Society 6. Stupid Ways of Working Smart? Colonising the Future Through Policy Advice 7. Anormative Black Boxes: Artificial Intelligence and Health Policy 8. Swarm-Teams With Digital Exoskeleton: On New Military Templates For The Organizational Society

Erscheinungsdatum	04.10.2019
Reihe/Serie	The Future of the Human
Zusatzinfo	3 Tables, black and white; 6 Line drawings, black and white; 1 Halftones, black and white; 7 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	566 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Metaphysik / Ontologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
ISBN-10	0-8153-7794-0 / 0815377940
ISBN-13	978-0-8153-7794-8 / 9780815377948
Zustand	Neuware