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  • Desiring Machines

    Mimetic Theory and Artificial Intelligence in Technology, Philosophy, Film, and Fiction

    Edited by Thomas Ryba, Professor Sandor Goodhart ...
    Series series Violence, Desire, and the Sacred
    As artificial intelligence assumes increasing prominence in our lives, a host of questions arise, particularly if one holds a view of humans as inherently social or mimetic, such as René Girard. Does the potential for self-awareness in artificial intelligence come with mimetic desire in the way Girard claims it does for human beings?Thomas Ryba and Sandor Goodhart bring together a team of renowned ... Read more

    $183.99 CAD

  • René Girard and Creative Mimesis

    by Wolfgang Palaver, Nancy Popp, Robert Doran, Richard McGuigan, Pablo Bandera, Andrew O'Shea, Francis Tobienne Jr., Petra Steinmair-Pösel, Christina Biava, Martha Reineke, Patrick Imbert, Joachim Duyndam, Robin Collins, André Lascaris, Thomas E. Reynolds ...
    For half a century René Girard’s theories of mimetic desire and scapegoating have captivated the imagination of thinkers and doers in many fields as an incisive look into the human condition, particularly the roots of violence. In a 1993 interview with Rebecca Adams, he highlighted the positive dimensions of mimetic phenomena without expanding on what they might be. Now, two decades later, this ... Read more

    $71.99 CAD

  • René Girard and Creative Reconciliation

    by Cameron Thomson, Nadia Delicata, Jon Pahl, Sue-Anne Hess, Eugene Webb, Frank Richardson, Kathryn Frost, Leonhard Praeg, Steve Moore, Rupa Menon, Duncan Morrow, Cynthia Stirbys, Angela Kiraly, Nikolaus Wandinger, Miguel de Las Casas Rolland, Pete Smith, Sandor Goodhart, Dr. Joel Hodge ...
    The contribution of this book to the field of reconciliation is both theoretical and practical, recognizing that good theory guides effective practice and practice is the ground for compelling theory. Using a Girardian hermeneutic as a starting point, a new conceptual Gestalt emerges in these essays, one not fully integrated in a formal way but showing a clear understanding of some of the ... Read more

    $183.99 CAD

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    Technology, Metaphor, and the Search for Meaning

    by Meghan O'Gieblyn ...
    A strikingly original exploration of what it might mean to be authentically human in the age of artificial intelligence, from the author of the critically-acclaimed Interior States. • "At times personal, at times philosophical, with a bracing mixture of openness and skepticism, it speaks thoughtfully and articulately to the most crucial issues awaiting our future." —Phillip Lopate“[A] truly ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

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  • Hermeneutics

    Facts and Interpretation in the Age of Information

    by John D. Caputo ...
    Series series Pelican Books
    Is anything ever not an interpretation?Does interpretation go all the way down?Is there such a thing as a pure fact that is interpretation-free? If not, how are we supposed to know what to think and do?These tantalizing questions are tackled by renowned American thinker John D Caputo in this wide-reaching exploration of what the traditional term 'hermeneutics' can mean in a postmodern, twenty ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Westworld and Philosophy

    If You Go Looking for the Truth, Get the Whole Thing

    by William Irwin ...
    Series series The Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series
    “We can’t define consciousness because consciousness does not exist. Humans fancy that there’s something special about the way we perceive the world, and yet we live in loops as tight and as closed as the hosts do, seldom questioning our choices, content, for the most part, to be told what to do next.”—Dr. Robert Ford, WestworldHave you ever questioned the nature of your reality? HBO’s Westworld, ... Read more

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  • The Seven Beauties of Science Fiction

    by Istvan Csicsery-Ronay ...
    This major critical work from one of the preeminent voices in science fiction scholarship reframes the genre as a way of understanding today's world.As the application of technoscience increasingly transforms every aspect of life, science fiction has become an essential mode of imagining the horizons of possibility. Though the broad scope of science fiction may vary in artistic quality and ... Read more

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  • How We Became Posthuman

    Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics

    by N. Katherine Hayles ...
    In this age of DNA computers and artificial intelligence, information is becoming disembodied even as the "bodies" that once carried it vanish into virtuality. While some marvel at these changes, envisioning consciousness downloaded into a computer or humans "beamed" Star Trek-style, others view them with horror, seeing monsters brooding in the machines. In How We Became Posthuman, N. Katherine ... Read more

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  • Does Writing Have a Future?

    by Vilém Flusser ...
    Translated by Nancy Ann Roth ...
    Series series Electronic Mediations
    In Does Writing Have a Future?, a remarkably perceptive work first published in German in 1987, Vilém Flusser asks what will happen to thought and communication as written communication gives way, inevitably, to digital expression. In his introduction, Flusser proposes that writing does not, in fact, have a future because everything that is now conveyed in writing—and much that cannot be—can be ... Read more

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  • The Vital Illusion

    by Jean Baudrillard ...
    Series series The Wellek Library Lectures
    Aren't we actually sick of sex, of difference, of emancipation, of culture? With this provocative taunt, the indomitable sociologist Jean Baudrillard challenges us to face up to our deadly, technologically empowered renunciation of mortality and subjectivity as he grapples with the complex issues that define our postmillennial world. What does the advent and proliferation of cloning mean for our ... Read more

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  • Glitch Art in Theory and Practice

    Critical Failures and Post-Digital Aesthetics

    by Michael Betancourt ...
    Glitch Art in Theory and Practice: Critical Failures and Post-Digital Aesthetics explores the concept of "glitch" alongside contemporary digital political economy to develop a general theory of critical media using glitch as a case study and model, focusing specifically on examples of digital art and aesthetics. While prior literature on glitch practice in visual arts has been divided between ... Read more

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  • Narrative as Virtual Reality 2

    Revisiting Immersion and Interactivity in Literature and Electronic Media

    by Marie-Laure Ryan ...
    Rethinking textuality, mimesis, and the cognitive processing of texts in light of new modes of artistic world construction.Winner of the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies from the Modern Language Association of AmericaIs there a significant difference between engagement with a game and engagement with a movie or novel? Can interactivity contribute to immersion, or is ... Read more

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