Post-Human Institutions and Organizations - Confronting the Matrix

When the Matrix trilogy was published in the mid-1980s, it introduced to mass culture a number of post-human tropes about the conscious machines that have haunted our collective imaginaries ever since. This volume explores¿the social representations and significance of technological developments - especially AI and human enhancement - that have started to transform our human agency. It uses these developments to revisit theories of the human mind and its essential characteristics: a first-person perspective, concerns and reflexivity. It looks at how the smart machines are used as agents of change in the basic institutions and organisations that hold contemporary societies together, for example in the family and the household, in commercial corporations, in health institutions or in the military. Its main purpose is to enrich the ongoing public discussion of the social and political implications of the smart machines by looking at the extent to which they further digitalise and bureaucratise the world, in particular by asking whether they are used to develop techno-totalitarian societies that corrode normativity and solidarity.

List of contents

1. Introduction: Digital Society’s Techno-totalitarian Matrix 2. What They Are Saying About Artificial Intelligence and Human Enhancement 3. Considering AI Personhood 4. Post-Human Sociality: Morphing Experience and Emergent Forms 5. The Digital Matrix and The Hybridisation of Society 6. Stupid Ways of Working Smart? Colonising the Future Through Policy Advice 7. Anormative Black Boxes: Artificial Intelligence and Health Policy 8. Swarm-Teams With Digital Exoskeleton: On New Military Templates For The Organizational Society

About the author

Ismael Al-Amoudi is Professor at Grenoble Ecole de Management, Univ Grenoble Alpes ComUE, France.

Emmanuel Lazega is Professor at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po), France.

Summary

This volume explores the social representations and significance of technological developments – especially AI and human enhancement – that have started to transform our human agency. It uses these developments to revisit theories of the human mind and its essential characteristics: a first person perspective, concerns and reflexivity.

Product details

• Authors: Ismael (Cardiff University Al-Amoudi, Ismael Lazega Al-Amoudi
• Assisted by: Ismael Al-Amoudi (Editor), Emmanuel Lazega (Editor), Lazega Emmanuel (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2021
• EAN: 9781032085630
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3208563-0
• No. of pages: 176
• Series: The Future of the Human
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, Social Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Robotics, Ethics & moral philosophy, Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology, Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology, Ethics and moral philosophy, Impact of science & technology on society, Impact of science and technology on society, COMPUTERS / Artificial Intelligence / General