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New German Critique (2022) 49 (1 (145)): 11–39.
Published: 01 February 2022
...Leif Weatherby Hans Blumenberg’s only known treatment of the topic of artificial intelligence comes in the form of a fragmentary meditation on the first chatbot, Joseph Weizenbaum’s ELIZA. Blumenberg compares this program to the philosophy of Edmund Husserl, arguing that both AI and phenomenology...
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New German Critique (2020) 47 (1 (139)): 9–24.
Published: 01 February 2020
... learning, but in human beings there is also a “deep learning” of which we are entirely unconscious. One knows that robots and digital systems that are networked with each other also talk to each other at night when we sleep. That is the “deep learning” of machines and artificial intelligence. Specialized...
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New German Critique (2022) 49 (1 (145)): 1–9.
Published: 01 February 2022
... investigates this surprising commonality that rests in a shared sense of the autonomy of the artwork and the distance its observer has to take on. Leif Weatherby’s opening contribution, “Intermittent Legitimacy: Hans Blumenberg and Artificial Intelligence,” expands on Blumenberg’s philosophy of technology...
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New German Critique (2023) 50 (3 (150)): 1–4.
Published: 01 November 2023
... of the ongoing threat of authoritarianism, the global hegemony of capitalism, its domination of the culture industry (now in the form of social media and artificial intelligence), and the increasing threat of climate catastrophe, all of which loom as large today as at any moment in the last fifty years and, some...
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New German Critique (2019) 46 (2 (137)): 27–34.
Published: 01 August 2019
... us the more successful strategies of self-presentation. If we dismiss this profound transformation in social interactions that has taken place since the digitization and datafication of everything, we might as well understand artificial intelligence merely as an extension of the computer and consider...
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New German Critique (2021) 48 (2 (143)): 107–123.
Published: 01 August 2021
...-sensible arrangement of unity in the midst of diversity. With Cavell, we might say that an aesthetic reflective judgment involves the active acknowledgment of the integrity of a material-sensible order representing an object independently of an explicit conceptualization of it. If the intelligibility...
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New German Critique (2023) 50 (3 (150)): 5–24.
Published: 01 November 2023
... und Theorie des Hörfunks—Deutschland/USA . Munich : Fink , 2005 . Handelman Matthew . “ Artificial Antisemitism: Critical Theory in the Age of Datafication .” Critical Inquiry 48 , no. 2 ( 2022 ): 286 – 312 . Hesse Christoph . “ Neue Medien, alte Scheiße .” Streifzüge...
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New German Critique (2017) 44 (3 (132)): 189–203.
Published: 01 November 2017
.... Furthermore, his contention that communication
(not the individual) ought to be regarded as the basic element of society aligned
him with emerging “posthumanist” and “cyborg” perspectives on questions of
embodied cognition, artificial intelligence, and animal rights, among others;
and it was realized...
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New German Critique (2025) 52 (1 (154)): 57–80.
Published: 01 February 2025
..., because of his exposure to all this, chooses to cherish a body that transcends flesh and mind, intelligence and stupidity, a body alive and victorious in front of all the attempts to reduce it to mere data. Castorp’s medico-scientific poem culminates in the revelation of “the image of life...
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New German Critique (2016) 43 (3 (129)): 53–72.
Published: 01 November 2016
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an artificial experience of temporal simultaneity CM( , 75). By introducing yet
another layer of mediation, including “accidental elements of performance”
(the sounds of conversation, tuning, applause, etc radio paradoxically revives
the felt immediacy that occludes its own mediatic layers...
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New German Critique (2010) 37 (2 (110)): 180–207.
Published: 01 August 2010
... that artificial intelligence had produced until
then, with all kinds of human capabilities, from playing chess to reading human
emotions.43 Kubrick’s film dramatizes the possibility of a radical reversal of
the relation between humans and apparatus, which is precisely what Flusser
theorizes in his book...
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New German Critique (2023) 50 (2 (149)): 181–207.
Published: 01 August 2023
... a “philosophy of a deeply structured [ tiefengegliedert ] psyche.” 19 The mask, argues Joachim Fischer, should be imagined as an “artificial expressive boundary,” thus a protective cover that is more permeable than a hermetic armor. 20 Crucially, for Plessner, this artificiality does not stand...
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New German Critique (2022) 49 (1 (145)): 97–130.
Published: 01 February 2022
... and Schwägerl, which is perfectly continuous with the modernist technological mastery narrative in which artificial intelligence and bioengineered humans and other organisms become the primary reality, and Homo sapiens as we have known it dissolves into a massive data network. 88 In Die Vollzähligkeit...
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New German Critique (2014) 41 (2 (122)): 97–109.
Published: 01 August 2014
... remains of thinking, intelligence, without any-
thing hypothetical, without any explanation?”3
The motif of forming theories, which is a precursor to any experiment, is
similar to that of forming fictions in another area, namely, that of aesthetics. Not
only can we aesthetically relate...
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New German Critique (2016) 43 (1 (127)): 195–214.
Published: 01 February 2016
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cially in the first edition of Behemoth and in his secret reports for the Office of
Strategic Services (OSS), the US intelligence agency during World War II. In
a report for the OSS internal newsletter, classified as “secret,” Neumann
advises, “It would be futile to refute the anti-Semitic...
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New German Critique (2010) 37 (3 (111)): 173–198.
Published: 01 November 2010
... with
him. He is made so as not to be afraid. He sees everything that is high; and is
King of all children of pride.”43 Hobbes’s Leviathan is an artificial body that
enables humanity to control nature and prevent the danger of vanity and war
that are present in the state of nature.
In contrast...
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New German Critique (2020) 47 (2 (140)): 45–80.
Published: 01 August 2020
... of later Foucauldian concerns about the application of the “economic grid of intelligibility” to social relations—she argued that the field of economics could achieve its scientific character only when humans became “social beings” following certain behavioral patterns in such a way that “those who did...
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New German Critique (2022) 49 (2 (146)): 15–48.
Published: 01 August 2022
... be as German as Annette von Droste-Hülshoff. Similarly, how could a Jew, who had aimed to cover his race by assuming the artificial Christian name “Friedrich Julius Stahl,” teach Germans about the nature of politics, the state—and of all things—about the nature of German conservatism! As Schmitt emphasizes...
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New German Critique (2022) 49 (1 (145)): 185–213.
Published: 01 February 2022
... by Heidegger’s use of language. Blumenberg distinguishes between the “artificial prose” of Being and Time and the later language of “divining being” ( Seinsorakelei ) ( L , 139; V , 100). Although he deems the early attempt at an artificial prose a failure, since even that early language of Heidegger’s “could...
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New German Critique (2014) 41 (2 (122)): 171–188.
Published: 01 August 2014
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in heated debates on the future of Chinese cinema. Challenging classical Hol-
lywood cinema’s intelligibility for a vastly diverse audience and reflecting on
the legacy of Shanghai cinema, filmmakers experimented with alternative film
aesthetics and techniques, debated the priority between urban...
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