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portada The Obsolescence of the Human Volume 75
Type
Physical Book
Publisher
Author
Collection
Posthumanities
Year
2025
Language
English
Pages
384
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
22.9x15.2x1.9 cm
ISBN13
9781517912642

The Obsolescence of the Human Volume 75

Gunther Anders;Christopher John Muller;Christopher John Muller;Christian Dries (Author) · University of Minnesota Press · Hardcover

The Obsolescence of the Human Volume 75 - Gunther Anders;Christopher John Muller;Christopher John Muller;Christian Dries

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Synopsis "The Obsolescence of the Human Volume 75"

Now available in English—one of the twentieth century’s most important works on the philosophy of technology With this first English translation of influential German philosopher GÜnther Anders’s 1956 masterpiece of critical theory, The Obsolescence of the Human, a new generation of readers can now engage with his prescient and haunting vision of a “world without us” dominated by technology. Looking at technological events such as the detonation of the nuclear bomb and the arrival of televisions in our living rooms, Anders advances a warning of what humanity looks like in a world where it has surrendered all agency. He outlines the new emotional landscapes that shape our relationship to increasingly capable technology, including Promethean shame, the human sense of unease our own superior technological innovations can instill. Confronting the growing gap between what we can collectively create and what we can individually comprehend, Anders speculates on the trajectory of a developing technological world that rapidly exceeds our ability to control or even foresee its negative consequences. The Obsolescence of the Human prefigures contemporary posthumanist discourse and is eerily predictive of current debates around automation, global warming, and artificial intelligence. Providing new ways to conceptualize the intersection of technology and emotion, it offers groundbreaking frameworks for future-oriented ethics. Radical in both its stylistic experimentation and its theoretical insights, this new translation presents a cautionary tale regarding the human capacity to usher in its own destruction. Retail e-book files for this title are screen-reader friendly with images accompanied by short alt text and/or extended descriptions.

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