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Law and Culture in the Age of Technology / Daniela Carpi.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Law & Literature ; 22Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2022]Copyright date: ©2022Description: 1 online resource (VI, 129 p.)Content type:
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  • 9783110786859
  • 9783110788204
  • 9783110788051
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 809/.933554 23/eng/20220901
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  • online - DeGruyter
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  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: What Comes After Postmodernism? -- Chapter 1 Transcendence: Death or Rebirth of Metaphysics? -- Chapter 2 The Technological “Monstrum”: Her by Spike Jonze -- Chapter 3 Dan Brown’s Origin: Can God Survive Technology? -- Chapter 4 The Circle: Technological Dictatorship -- Chapter 5 Ian McEwan’s Machines Like Me and People Like You: Can a Machine Be “Killed”? -- Chapter 6 Ex Machina: Technological Re-reading of Myth -- Chapter 7 Blade Runner 2049: The Christological Perspective of Technology -- Conclusion: The Promethean Dialectic of Technology -- Bibliography -- Index of Names
Summary: Scientific experiments and medical improvements in recent years have augmented our bodies, made them manipulable; our personal data have been downloaded, stored, sold, analyzed; and the pandemic has given new meaning to the idea of ‘virtual presence’. Such phenomena are often thought to belong to the era of the ‘posthuman’, an era that both promises and threatens to redefine the notion of the human: what does it mean to be human? Can technological advances impact the way we define ourselves as a species? What will the future of humankind look like? These questions have gained urgency in recent years, and continue to preoccupy cultural and legal practitioners alike. How can the law respond and adapt to a world shaped by technology and AI? How can it ensure that technological developments remain inclusive, while simultaneously enforcing ethical limits to its reach? The volume explores how fictional texts, whether on the page or on screen, negotiate the legal dilemmas posed by the increasing infiltration of technology into modern life.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: What Comes After Postmodernism? -- Chapter 1 Transcendence: Death or Rebirth of Metaphysics? -- Chapter 2 The Technological “Monstrum”: Her by Spike Jonze -- Chapter 3 Dan Brown’s Origin: Can God Survive Technology? -- Chapter 4 The Circle: Technological Dictatorship -- Chapter 5 Ian McEwan’s Machines Like Me and People Like You: Can a Machine Be “Killed”? -- Chapter 6 Ex Machina: Technological Re-reading of Myth -- Chapter 7 Blade Runner 2049: The Christological Perspective of Technology -- Conclusion: The Promethean Dialectic of Technology -- Bibliography -- Index of Names

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Scientific experiments and medical improvements in recent years have augmented our bodies, made them manipulable; our personal data have been downloaded, stored, sold, analyzed; and the pandemic has given new meaning to the idea of ‘virtual presence’. Such phenomena are often thought to belong to the era of the ‘posthuman’, an era that both promises and threatens to redefine the notion of the human: what does it mean to be human? Can technological advances impact the way we define ourselves as a species? What will the future of humankind look like? These questions have gained urgency in recent years, and continue to preoccupy cultural and legal practitioners alike. How can the law respond and adapt to a world shaped by technology and AI? How can it ensure that technological developments remain inclusive, while simultaneously enforcing ethical limits to its reach? The volume explores how fictional texts, whether on the page or on screen, negotiate the legal dilemmas posed by the increasing infiltration of technology into modern life.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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