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Joshua Raulerson - Singularities - 9781846319723 - V9781846319723
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Singularities

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Description for Singularities Hardcover. This groundbreaking volume is the first to mount a sustained and wide-ranging critical treatment of Singularity (the irrevocable transformation of the nature of human existence by technological advancement) as a subject for theory and cultural studies. Series: Liverpool Science Fiction Texts & Studies. Num Pages: 254 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 240 x 160 x 21. Weight in Grams: 544.
In a time of protracted economic crisis, failing political systems, and impending environmental collapse, one strand in our collective cultural myth of Progress – the technological – remains vibrantly intact, surging into the future at ramming speed. Amid the seemingly exponential proliferation of machine intelligence and network connectivity, and the increasingly portentous implications of emerging nanotechnology, futurists and fabulists look to an imminent historical threshold whereupon the nature of human existence will be radically and irrevocably transformed. The Singularity, it is supposed, can be no more than a few years off; indeed, some believe it has already begun. Technological Singularity ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Series
Liverpool Science Fiction Texts & Studies
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
Liverpool, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781846319723
SKU
V9781846319723
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About Joshua Raulerson
Joshua Raulerson holds a PhD from the University of Iowa.

Reviews for Singularities
Reviews'Dazzling ideas come flying in quick succession on each page of this manuscript, and the writing itself is absolutely delightful. It promises to become a highly regarded work in science fiction studies, science and technology studies, and cultural studies.' Colin Milburn, UCD 'Elegant, wry, and profoundly topical, Joshua Raulerson’s Singularities is a masterful study of the many connections between ... Read more

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