Posthumanism Meets Surveillance Capitalism by Patrick Gamez - 9783031907692

Posthumanism Meets Surveillance CapitalismHow to Delete the Manifest Image\nAuthor(s): Patrick Gamez\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Springer International Publishing AG, Switzerland\nImprint: Palgrave Macmillan\nISBN-13: 9783031907692, 978-3031907692\nSynopsis\nThe core contention of this book is that, when viewed through the lens of contemporary posthuman theory, contemporary uses of AI under platform capitalism not only undermine our sense of the human but also our frameworks for conceptualizing ourselves as subjects or selves at all. This radical conclusion raises issues forces us to reckon with a new, disorienting horizon for critical thought at the intersection of technology and politics.\n\nThis book demonstrates that two major streams of posthuman thoughtnamely, accelerationism and Prometheanismcan be interpreted as attempts to liberate our desires from our reason or our rationality from our all-too-human desire, each through the offloading of various tasks to emerging technolo.