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02266aam a22003135i 4500 001 2F0ABFE2E5A311E9B7B99A5997128E48 003 SILO 005 20191003010029 008 180124t20192019enk 000 0 eng d 010 $a 2018932661 020 $a 178904040X 020 $a 9781789040401 035 $a (OCoLC)1111639065 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d QE2 $d OCLCF $d OCLCO $d SILO 042 $a lccopycat 050 00 $a Q335 N494 2019 100 1 $a Nikbin, Darius, $e author. 245 14 $a The universal subject of our time : $b (or: how I learned to stop worrying and love the machine) / $c Darius Nikbin. 246 30 $a How I learned to stop worrying and love the machine 264 1 $a Winchester, UK ; $b Zero Books, $c 2019. 300 $a vii, 153 pages ; $c 22 cm 520 $a "The Subject itself is the Subject of the Machine. What does it mean to be human? We live in a technological age, where rapid advances in personal tech and the science of Artificial Intelligence are challenging us in ways never before imagined. A book in two parts, The Universal Subject of Our Time begins with an exploration of 20th Century post-modernism's undermining of subjectivity with thinkers such as Foucault, Derrida, Baudrillard and Althusser and continues with a description of the science wars, where physical realists challenged the post-modernists up to the 1990s when the intellectual conflict resulted in an uncompromising stand-off after the Sokal Hoax. In Part II the subject is resurrected by taking a look at arguments for machine intelligence and AI and also, from the perspective of physics, examines what subjectivity means, particularly in relation to black holes or black stars, and look to what lies ahead in the future, in terms of space exploration, Martian habitats and even the possibility of first contact with extra-terrestrials"--Cover. 650 0 $a Artificial intelligence $x Philosophy. 650 0 $a Subjectivity. 776 08 $i ebook version : $a Nikbin, Darius. $t Universal subject of our time. $d [Place of publication not identified], ZERO Books, 2019 $z 1789040418 $w (OCoLC)1088436945 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20200806024057.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=2F0ABFE2E5A311E9B7B99A5997128E48 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search