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Posthumanities eBook Series

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  • Ideal Subjects

    The Abstract People of AI

    by Olga Goriunova ...
    Series series Posthumanities
    How data and artificial intelligence create a new, abstract digital subjectIdeal Subjects examines how samples of our lives and daily behaviors have come to reside in the world of data and artificial intelligence—and what this means for who we are and what we may become. Detailing how AI-facilitated algorithmic prediction and data modeling make “ideal subjects” of us, Olga Goriunova explores the ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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  • Language Machines

    Cultural AI and the End of Remainder Humanism

    by Leif Weatherby ...
    Series series Posthumanities
    How generative AI systems capture a core function of languageLooking at the emergence of generative AI, Language Machines presents a new theory of meaning in language and computation, arguing that humanistic scholarship misconstrues how large language models (LLMs) function. Seeing LLMs as a convergence of computation and language, Leif Weatherby contends that AI does not simulate cognition, as ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

  • Human Information Retrieval

    by Julian Warner ...
    Series series History and Foundations of Information Science
    An overview of information retrieval rooted in the humanities and social sciences but informed by an understanding of information technology and information theory.Information retrieval in the age of Internet search engines has become part of ordinary discourse and everyday practice: “Google” is a verb in common usage. Thus far, more attention has been given to practical understanding of ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Communicative AI

    A Critical Introduction to Large Language Models

    by Mark Coeckelbergh, David J. Gunkel ...
    Large Language Models (LLMs), like OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s LaMDA, are not only the most disruptive and controversial technologies of our time, but also offer an unprecedented opportunity to examine human cognition and philosophically question the very nature of language, communication, and intelligence. What is consciousness? What is language? Are LLMs authors? Are LLMs the end of writing as ... Read more

    $18.00 USD

  • The Nonhuman Turn

    Edited by Richard Grusin ...
    Series series 21st Century Studies
    Edited by Richard Grusin of the Center for 21st Century Studies, this is the first book to name and characterize—and therefore consolidate—a wide array of current critical, theoretical, and philosophical approaches to the humanities and social sciences under the concept of the nonhuman turn. Each of these approaches is engaged in decentering the human in favor of a concern for the nonhuman, ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Great Endarkenment

    Philosophy in an Age of Hyperspecialization

    by Elijah Millgram ...
    Human beings have always been specialists, but over the past two centuries division of labor has become deeper, ubiquitous, and much more fluid. The form it now takes brings in its wake a series of problems that are simultaneously philosophical and practical, having to do with coordinating the activities of experts in different disciplines who do not understand one another. Because these problems ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

  • The Cultural Logic of Computation

    by David Golumbia ...
    Advocates of computers make sweeping claims for their inherently transformative power: new and different from previous technologies, they are sure to resolve many of our existing social problems, and perhaps even to cause a positive political revolution.In The Cultural Logic of Computation, David Golumbia, who worked as a software designer for more than ten years, confronts this orthodoxy, arguing ... Read more

    $37.79 USD

  • Revolutionary Mathematics

    Artificial Intelligence, Statistics and the Logic of Capitalism

    by Justin Joque ...
    Traces the revolution in statistics that gave rise to artificial intelligence and predictive algorithms refiguring contemporary capitalism.Our finances, politics, media, opportunities, information, shopping and knowledge production are mediated through algorithms and their statistical approaches to knowledge; increasingly, these methods form the organizational backbone of contemporary capitalism. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Promise of Artificial Intelligence

    Reckoning and Judgment

    by Brian Cantwell Smith ...
    An AI expert argues that—despite dramatic advances in the field—artificial intelligence is nowhere near developing systems that are genuinely intelligent.In this provocative book, Brian Cantwell Smith argues that artificial intelligence is nowhere near developing systems that are genuinely intelligent. Second-wave AI, machine learning, even visions of third-wave AI: none will lead to human-level ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Sociolinguistics

    Theoretical Debates

    Edited by Nikolas Coupland ...
    Sociolinguistics is a dynamic field of research that explains the role and function of language in social life. This book offers the most substantial account available of the core contemporary ideas and arguments in sociolinguistics, with an emphasis on innovation and change. Bringing together original writing by more than twenty of the field's most influential international thinkers and ... Read more

    $43.49 USD

  • The Affect Theory Reader 2

    Worldings, Tensions, Futures

    Edited by Gregory J. Seigworth, Carolyn Pedwell ...
    Series series ANIMA: Critical Race Studies Otherwise
    Building on the foundational Affect Theory Reader, this new volume gathers together contemporary scholarship that highlights and interrogates the contemporary state of affect inquiry. Unsettling what might be too readily taken-for-granted assumptions in affect theory, The Affect Theory Reader 2 extends and challenges how contemporary theories of affect intersect with a wide range of topics and ... Read more

    $24.49 USD

  • Critical Theory and the Digital

    by Dr. David M. Berry ...
    Series series Critical Theory and Contemporary Society
    This Critical Theory and Contemporary Society volume offers an original analysis of the role of the digital in today's society. It rearticulates critical theory by engaging it with the challenges of the digital revolution to show how the digital is changing the ways in which we lead our politics, societies, economies, media, and even private lives. In particular, the work examines how the ... Read more

    $42.89 USD