augmented

intelligence

traumas

What does thinking mean in the age of Artificial Intelligence? From the history of cybernetics to big-scale computation, this book edited by Matteo Pasquinelli explores how computing is transforming the functioning of our brains to uncover the positive role played by errors and traumas.

Alleys of Your Mind

Augmented Intelligence and Its Traumas

What does thinking mean in the age of Artificial Intelligence? How is big-scale computation transforming the way our brains function? This collection discusses these pressing questions by looking beyond instrumental rationality. Exploring recent developments as well as examples from the history of cybernetics, the book uncovers the positive role played by errors and traumas in the construction of our contemporary technological minds.

With texts by Benjamin Bratton, Orit Halpern, Adrian Lahoud, Jon Lindblom, Catherine Malabou, Reza Negarestani, Luciana Parisi, Matteo Pasquinelli, Ana Teixeira Pinto, Michael Wheeler, Charles Wolfe, and Ben Woodard.

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Publishing Year
2015
Language
English
Pages
212
Print Edition Price
€ 19.90 RRP
License
CC-BY-SA 4.0
ISBNs
978-3-95796-065-8 (Print)
978-3-95796-066-5 (PDF)
DOI
10.14619/014

The Editor

Matteo Pasquinelli is Associate Professor in Philosophy of Science at the Department of Philosophy and Cultural Heritage of Ca’ Foscari University in Venice where he is coordinating the ERC project AIMODELS. His book The Eye of the Master: A Social History of Artificial Intelligence (London: Verso, 2023) won the Deutscher Prize 2024. He edited the anthology Alleys of Your Mind: Augmented Intelligence and Its Traumas (Meson Press, 2015) among other publications.

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