This book proposes a new theoretical framework for approaching the
causes and effects that digital technologies and the imaginaries
related to them have on the processes of self-interpretation and
subjectivation. It formulates three main theses. First, it argues that
today’s digital technologies, which are primarily based on
artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms and big data are formidable
habitus machines: they offer increasingly personalized services, but
these machines are actually indifferent to individuals and their
personalities. Second, this book contends that the effectiveness of
these machines does not depend solely on their concrete capacity to
classify the social world. It also depends on the expectations, hopes,
fears, and imaginaries that we have concerning these technologies and
their capacities. This cultural habitus—a worldview, or world
picture—leads us to believe in the concrete effectiveness of AI and
its potential for our societies. Third, the author takes this
Bourdieusian notion of habitus and connects it to current “empirical
turn” in philosophy of technology. He contends that, by looking too
closely at the things themselves, many philosophers of technology have
deprived themselves of the possibility to study the symbolic
conditions of possibility in which single technological artifacts are
always embedded. Digital Habitus will appeal to scholars and students
working in philosophy of technology, the ethics of artificial
intelligence, media studies, and science and technology studies.
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A Critique of the Imaginaries of Artificial Intelligence
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781000916393
Publisert
2023
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Vendor
Routledge
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Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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