Artificial Intelligence and Barbarism
Subtitle: A Critique of Digital Reason
Publisher: Athens School
Published: 2025
Place of publication: Athens, Greece
Language: eng
Translated from: gre
Translation of: Τεχνολογία και Βαρβαρότητα: Κριτική του Ψηφιακού Λόγου
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 201
ISBN-13: 978-6188777217
Copyright date: 2025
Table of contents: title: Contents; title: 􀀃; title: Introduction ......................................................................................... 9; title: The problematic of Artificial Intelligence ........................................... 9; title: Chapter One: TECHNOSKEPTICISM .................................................29; title: 1.1. An Aristotelian misconception ..........................................29; title: 1.2. Technoskepticism as a Critique of Digital Rationality ......31; title: 1.3. The social-historical conditions of the Internet ................37; title: 1.4. Informational Ontologies ...................................................48; title: 1.5. Digitality and temporality ...................................................52; title: 1.6. The logic of the hypertext ..................................................60; title: 1.7. Narrative temporalities ......................................................66; title: Chapter Two: THE METAPHYSICS OF AI ..........................................73; title: 2.1. The philosophical problems behind the development of AI .....73; title: 2.2. The challenge of talking to ChatGPT .........................................77; title: 2.3. What is telepresence? ................................................................82; title: 2.4. Software nightmares ..................................................................91; title: 2.5. On living beings and thinking machines ....................................94; title: Chapter Three: THE IDEOLOGY OF AI ............................................ 129; title: 3.1. Deus in Machina. ..................................................................... 129; title: 3.2. The Game behind the Game: Artificial Intelligence and the; title: Political Imaginary .......................................................................... 136; title: 3.3. Artificial Intelligence and Surveillance Capitalism ................. 145; title: Chapter Four: POSSIBLE FUTURES ................................................ 161; title: 4.1. Digital commons as a praxis of digital repossession ............ 161; title: 4.2. Societies on the move ............................................................. 165; title: 4.3. Digital consumerism ............................................................... 175; title: 4.4. Acts of digital repossession ................................................... 178; title: 4.5. Cosmolocal perspectives........................................................ 182; title: 4.6. Rooting in social-historical reality ........................................... 185; title: 4.7. A common horizon of expectations ....................................... 189; title: Bibliography .................................................................................... 193