Search Results for Artificial Life

...The organism, the self, and (artificial) life ...

... This chapter centers on depictions of artificial life and death in contemporary society. One extended example is a nonfiction bestseller that is in effect a popularization of systems thinking–-Malcolm Gladwell’s Blink: Thinking Without Thinking —with war game scenarios its focus Another...

... Social games War games Education-Systems Black Boxes Kazuo Ishiguro Artificial Life ...

... Dreiser) and recent artwork. These scenes provide a way to map these games, their rules and their media--and the social field they at once model and realize This chapter centers on depictions of artificial life and death in contemporary society. One extended example is a nonfiction bestseller...

... and conducted groundbreaking research in artificial intelligence. In the 1950s he was arrested on gross indecency charges and subjected to chemical castration treatments that may have driven him to suicide. Turing’s life and work reveal a queer drive in the development of the computer. This chapter argues...

... in the direction of social life. In doing so, she engages with artificial-intelligence perspectives to elaborate an account of the relations between habit and intelligence that overcomes human-machine dualities. In probing the pathway metaphors that abound in Malabou's work, the chapter questions the authority she...

... In the mad rush toward extinction of life that characterizes the past seventy-five years, Oceania has always been on the front lines. After having been used as laboratories on which to experiment with radioactive weapons of mass destruction, these islands are now being used by overindustrialized...

... possibility opened up by the incursion of biotechnologies. It explores the prolificity of excess that is unleashed when the scope of intervention is not capped by reference to what is naturally given. Although bodies occupy a prominent place in Brazilian social life, they are not imagined as fixed...

... This essay explores the relation of critical ethnic studies to the neoliberal corporate university. It argues that the corporate university participates in neoliberalism’s effort to enclose or accumulate the common means to life, of which education is one instance. Critique disassociated from...

... or artificiality. These debates are particularly interesting in that they argue that biology is shaped by social life. Changing patterns of fertility associated to the entrance of women into the workforce are described by menstrual suppression advocates as exposing contemporary women to what is often referred...

...How We Travel Leisure is a serious topic in the history of thought, connected intimately with the search for a meaningful life. The relationship between work and leisure today is more complex than ever. Though leisure is certainly not a concept exclusive to the world of travel and tourism...

... the limits of subjective transformations without transformation of structures. Algorithms have become ubiquitous in social life. From macro governmental decision making to our everyday quotidian acts, we interact with algorithms as they learn from and shape our becoming, seeking to compress patterns...