From Literature To Biterature
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From Literature To Biterature
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Author : Peter Swirski
language : en
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Release Date : 2013-10-01
From Literature To Biterature written by Peter Swirski and has been published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
From Literature to Biterature is based on the premise that in the foreseeable future computers will become capable of creating works of literature. Among hundreds of other questions, it considers: Under which conditions would machines become capable of creative writing? Given that computer evolution will exceed the pace of natural evolution a million-fold, what will such a state of affairs entail in terms of art, culture, social life, and even nonhuman rights? Drawing a map of impending literary, cultural, social, and technological revolutions, Peter Swirski boldly assumes that computers will leap from mere syntax-driven processing to semantically rich understanding. He argues that acknowledging biterature as a species of literature will involve adopting the same range of attitudes to computer authors (computhors) as to human ones and that it will be necessary to approach them as agents with internal states and creative intentions. Ranging from the metafiction of Stanislaw Lem to the "Turing test" (familiar to scientists working in Artificial Intelligence and the philosophers of mind) to the evolutionary trends of culture and machines, Swirski's scenarios lay the groundwork for a new area of study on the cusp of literary futurology, evolutionary cognition, and philosophy of the future.
American Crime Fiction
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Author : Peter Swirski
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2016-07-15
American Crime Fiction written by Peter Swirski and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-07-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
Peter Swirski looks at American crime fiction as an artform that expresses and reflects the social and aesthetic values of its authors and readers. As such he documents the manifold ways in which such authorship and readership are a matter of informed literary choice and not of cultural brainwashing or declining literary standards. Asking, in effect, a series of questions about the nature of genre fiction as art, successive chapters look at American crime writers whose careers throw light on the hazards and rewards of nobrow traffic between popular forms and highbrow aesthetics: Dashiell Hammett, John Grisham, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, Raymond Chandler, Ed McBain, Nelson DeMille, and F. Scott Fitzgerald.
A Stanislaw Lem Reader
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Author : Stanisław Lem
language : en
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Release Date : 1997-11-12
A Stanislaw Lem Reader written by Stanisław Lem and has been published by Northwestern University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-11-12 with Literary Criticism categories.
In The Lem Reader, Peter Swirski has assembled an in-depth and insightful collection of writings by and about, and interviews with, one of the most fascinating writers of the twentieth century.
American Utopia
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Author : Peter Swirski
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2019-07-08
American Utopia written by Peter Swirski and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-07-08 with Literary Criticism categories.
From Black Tuesday to the White House, from Plato to Robert Nozick, from Eugene Debs to Richard Nixon, from Peter Cornelis Plockhoy to the hippie communes of the Sixties, from universal basic income to utopian basic income, from proverbial wisdom to multilevel selection, from Big Data to paleomorality, from Prisoner’s Dilemma to social-engineering Israeli kindergartens, from time travel to gene engineering, from the pretzel logic of meritocracy to deaggressing humanity, American Utopia maps the pitfalls and windfalls of social reform in the name of the human use of human beings. Interrogating the assumptions behind four outré utopias by Thomas M. Disch, Bernard Malamud, Kurt Vonnegut, and Margaret Atwood, the book interrogates the assumptions that have historically been central to the utopian project. Whence the seeds of social discontent? Whence our taste for egoism and altruism? For waging war and waging peace? Can we bioengineer human nature to specifications? Should we? Who makes better guardians: humans or machines? And who will guard the guardians?
Stanislaw Lem
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Author : Peter Swirski
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2015
Stanislaw Lem written by Peter Swirski and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with History categories.
Stanislaw Lem: Philosopher of the Future brings a welter of unknown elements of Lem's life, career, and literary legacy to light in order to mete out cognitive justice to the writer who preferred to be known as the philosopher of the future.
Evolution And Human Culture
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Author : Gregory F. Tague
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2016-04-26
Evolution And Human Culture written by Gregory F. Tague and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-26 with Philosophy categories.
Evolution and Human Culture argues that values, beliefs, and practices are expressions of individual and shared moral sentiments. Much of our cultural production stems from what in early hominins was a caring tendency, both the care to share and a self-care to challenge others. Topics cover prehistory, mind, biology, morality, comparative primatology, art, and aesthetics. The book is valuable to students and scholars in the arts, including moral philosophers, who would benefit from reading about scientific developments that impact their fields. For biologists and social scientists the book provides a window into how scientific research contributes to understanding the arts and humanities. The take-home point is that culture does not transcend nature; rather, culture is an evolved moral behavior.
Brain Mind And Internet
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Author : D. Staley
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2014-08-15
Brain Mind And Internet written by D. Staley and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-08-15 with Psychology categories.
This essay places the emerging brain-Internet interface within a broad historical context: that the Internet represents merely the next stage in a very long history of human cognition whereby the brain couples with symbolic technologies. Understanding this 'deep history' provides a way to imagine the future of brain-Internet cognition.
The Art And Science Of Stanislaw Lem
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Author : Peter Swirski
language : en
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Release Date : 2006
The Art And Science Of Stanislaw Lem written by Peter Swirski and has been published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Literary Criticism categories.
Leading scholars examine the social and cultural significance of technology and science in the work of Stanislaw Lem, the author of Solaris.
Track Changes
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Author : Matthew G. Kirschenbaum
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2016-05-02
Track Changes written by Matthew G. Kirschenbaum and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-05-02 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
The story of writing in the digital age is every bit as messy as the ink-stained rags that littered the floor of Gutenberg’s print shop or the hot molten lead of the Linotype machine. During the period of the pivotal growth and widespread adoption of word processing as a writing technology, some authors embraced it as a marvel while others decried it as the death of literature. The product of years of archival research and numerous interviews conducted by the author, Track Changes is the first literary history of word processing. Matthew Kirschenbaum examines how the interests and ideals of creative authorship came to coexist with the computer revolution. Who were the first adopters? What kind of anxieties did they share? Was word processing perceived as just a better typewriter or something more? How did it change our understanding of writing? Track Changes balances the stories of individual writers with a consideration of how the seemingly ineffable act of writing is always grounded in particular instruments and media, from quills to keyboards. Along the way, we discover the candidates for the first novel written on a word processor, explore the surprisingly varied reasons why writers of both popular and serious literature adopted the technology, trace the spread of new metaphors and ideas from word processing in fiction and poetry, and consider the fate of literary scholarship and memory in an era when the final remnants of authorship may consist of folders on a hard drive or documents in the cloud.
Outsmarting Ai
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Author : Brennan Pursell
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2020-08-15
Outsmarting Ai written by Brennan Pursell and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-08-15 with Business & Economics categories.
From factories to smartphones, Artificial Intelligence is already taking over. Outsmarting AI is not a how-to guide on making AI work, but making it work for YOU to boost profits and productivity. Each development in Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology brings about apprehension and panic for the future of society and for business. We’re bombarded with stories about the impending human-less workplace; it is no longer a question if man can be replaced by machine in certain tasks, but when. However, AI was not manufactured to destroy life as we know it. These emerging technologies were developed and are constantly updating with a particular goal in mind: optimization. AI feeds on data and information to improve outputs and increase potential. With this enhanced productivity, profit and productivity will be sure to follow. Written by Brennan Pursell, a business consultant and professor who hates jargon, and Joshua Walker, an AI pioneer with 18 years of experience in solutions and applications, Outsmarting AI is the first plain-English how-to guide on adapting AI for the non-coding proficient business leader. This book will help readers to Cut through the fog of AI hype See exactly what AI can actually do for people in business Identify the areas of their organization in most need of AI tools Prepare and control their data – AI is useless without it Adopt AI and develop the right culture to support it Track the productivity boost, cost savings, and increased profits Manage and minimize the threat of crippling lawsuits