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Frankenstein's Legacy: Discursive Thinking in the Economic Paradigm
Series
Theory & Culture
Type
book section
Date Issued
2018
Author(s)
Abstract (De)
"Frankenstein's Legacy" provides counter-readings of technographic
representation specific to three conjunctural eras of reflexive modernity. It contextualizes Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1818) through the "dual revolution" (Hobsbawm) of early industrialism and burgeoning institutionalism at the turn of the nineteenth century. Next, Alan Turing's seminal paper "Computing Machinery and Intelligence" (1950) is historicized relative to the emerging socio-economic logics of cold war and post-imperial military-industrial capitalism. Finally, the public announcement of Google's restructuring and rebranding as Alphabet (2015) is analyzed with regard to the company's stake in a concomitant language-cognition driven "A.I. awakening" (Lewis-Kraus, 2016) revolutionizing economies of smart labor and human-machine interaction.
representation specific to three conjunctural eras of reflexive modernity. It contextualizes Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1818) through the "dual revolution" (Hobsbawm) of early industrialism and burgeoning institutionalism at the turn of the nineteenth century. Next, Alan Turing's seminal paper "Computing Machinery and Intelligence" (1950) is historicized relative to the emerging socio-economic logics of cold war and post-imperial military-industrial capitalism. Finally, the public announcement of Google's restructuring and rebranding as Alphabet (2015) is analyzed with regard to the company's stake in a concomitant language-cognition driven "A.I. awakening" (Lewis-Kraus, 2016) revolutionizing economies of smart labor and human-machine interaction.
Language
English
Keywords
technography
Mary Shelley
Frankenstein
1818
conjunctural analysis
conjunctural storytelling
dual revolution
industrial revolution
French revolution
early institutionalism
Alan Turing
Computing Machinery and Intelligence
AI
artificial intelligence
machine intelligence
human-machine interaction
natural language cognition
cognitive computing
imitation game
Turing Test
cold-war intelligence
Google
Alphabet
A.I. awakening
technosocial transition
techno-social change
HSG Classification
contribution to scientific community
HSG Profile Area
SHSS - Kulturen, Institutionen, Maerkte (KIM)
Book title
Screening Economies: Money Matters and the Ethics of Representation
Publisher
transcript Verlag
Publisher place
Bielefeld
Volume
183
Start page
71
End page
93
Pages
22
Subject(s)
Division(s)
Contact Email Address
scott.loren@unisg.ch
Eprints ID
256707