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100 1  Kingwell, Mark,|d1963-|eauthor.|1https://id.oclc.org/
       worldcat/entity/E39PBJmhKw649DTfKPVPhTqqQq 
245 10 Singular creatures :|brobots, rights, and the politics of 
       posthumanism /|cMark Kingwell. 
263    202209 
264  1 Montreal ;|aKingston ;|aLondon ;|aChicago :|bMcGill-
       Queen's University Press,|c2022. 
300    1 online resource (xiii, 226 pages) :|billustrations 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    computer|bc|2rdamedia 
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504    Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0  Past imperfect -- The future is always present -- After 
       work -- Future imperfect -- Second valley. 
520    "Anxiety about non-human intelligent machines is a 
       longstanding theme of cultural production and consumption.
       These range from tales of golems and Frankenstein's 
       monster to the evil overlord scenarios of contemporary 
       film and television franchises: Star Trek, the Alien 
       series, and the Terminator sequence, as well as Her, Black
       Mirror, Blade Runner, Ex Machina, and many, many other 
       less mainstream cultural artifacts. The source of this 
       anxiety is clear. Non-human conscious entities may turn 
       out to be superior to any biological form of life, 
       allowing a stride across human ambition in a moment dubbed
       "the Singularity" by AI insiders. This is the turning 
       point when non-human entities advance and reproduce in a 
       manner that surpasses and subjugates biological forms of 
       intelligent life. Although today's artificial 
       intelligences fall notably short of this level of 
       sophistication, Mark Kingwell argues that we are already 
       more than human in important ways, and likely to become 
       more so as time goes on. In Singular Creatures Kingwell 
       plumbs the depths of cultural and political meaning in the
       apparent transition to posthuman life. Our immersion in 
       technology, now comprehensive to the point of invisibility,
       has altered forever what it means to be alive. The 
       politics of posthumanism flow directly from our own 
       situation, at once dependent on technology and afraid of 
       its effects on current and future experiences. More than a
       century after playwright Karel Čapek coined the word robot
       --rooted in the Czech robota, meaning "servitude" or 
       "drudgery"--in his 1920 allegory about the alienation of 
       forced labour leading to a violent workers' revolt, 
       Čapek's central question continues to haunt us still. Can 
       humans and their own creations co-exist in a new 
       cyberflesh world, or is a struggle for superiority 
       inevitable? Singular Creatures is an attempt at sketching 
       the field before any deadly battle is joined."--|cProvided
       by publisher. 
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650  0 Technology|xPhilosophy. 
650  0 Human beings|xPhilosophy. 
650  0 Posthumanism. 
650  0 Artificial intelligence. 
650  0 Transhumanism. 
650  7 artificial intelligence.|2aat 
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650  7 Artificial intelligence|2fast 
650  7 Human beings|xPhilosophy|2fast 
650  7 Posthumanism|2fast 
650  7 Technology|xPhilosophy|2fast 
776 08 |iPrint version:|aKingwell, Mark, 1963-|tSingular 
       creatures.|dMontreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : 
       McGill-Queen's University Press, 2022|z0228014344
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