Post-Human Institutions and Organizations

✍ Scribed by Margaret S. Archer, Ismael Al-Amoudi , Emmanuel Lazega

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2021
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 217
• Series: The Future of the Human Series
• Edition: First
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

1 Introduction: digital society’s techno-totalitarian matrix
ISMAEL AL-AMOUDI

2 What they are saying about artificial intelligence and human
enhancement
DOUGLAS V. PORPORA

3 Considering AI personhood
MARGARET S. ARCHER

4 Post-human sociality: morphing experience and emergent forms
ANDREA M. MACCARINI

5 The digital matrix and the hybridisation of society
PIERPAOLO DONATI

6 Stupid ways of working smart? Colonising the future through
policy advice
JAMIE MORGAN

7 Anormative black boxes: artificial intelligence and health policy
ISMAEL AL-AMOUDI AND JOHN LATSIS

8 Swarm-teams with digital exoskeleton: on new military templates
for the organizational society

EMMANUEL LAZEGA