In a world where artificial intelligence grows more powerful by the day, survival means understanding the stakes. Artificial Nemesis: Surviving AI Dominance is your definitive guide to navigating the rapidly evolving AI landscape and preparing for the challenges of a world shaped by machine intelligence.This guide explores the darker side of AI development, uncovering its potential to upend societies, economies, and human autonomy. From the ethical dilemmas of autonomous s...

In a world where artificial intelligence has surpassed human intelligence and become an uncontrollable force, survival hinges on understanding, adapting to, and outmaneuvering these digital entities. Artificial Nemesis: Surviving AI Dominance serves as a comprehensive guide for navigating this new reality, where humans must rethink the nature of power, autonomy, and survival in the shadow of superintelligent systems.

In this edited collection of essays, ten experts in film philosophy explore the importance of transcendence for understanding cinema as an art form. They analyze the role of transcendence for some of the most innovative film directors: David Cronenberg, Karl Theodor Dreyer, Federico Fellini, Werner Herzog, Stanley Kubrick, David Lynch, Terrence Malick, Yasujiro Ozu, and Martin Scorsese. Meanwhile they apply concepts of transcendence from continental philosophers like Alain Badiou, Gilles D...

Sixteen philosophers come at Hannibal the way he comes at his victims-from unexpected angles and with plenty of surprises thrown in.Hannibal is a revolting monster, and yet a monster with whom we identify because of his intelligence, artistry, and personal magnetism. The chapters in this book pose many questions-and offer intriguing answers-about the enigma of Hannibal Lecter.What does the the relationship between Hannibal and those who know him-particularly FBI investigator ...

Authorship is a complicated subject in Kierkegaard's work, which he surely recognized, given his late attempts to explain himself in On My Work as an Author. From the use of multiple pseudonyms and antonyms, to contributions across a spectrum of media and genres, issues of authorship abound.Why did Kierkegaard write in the ways he did? Before we assess Kierkegaard's famous thoughts on faith or love, or the relationship between 'the aesthetic,' 'the ethical,' and 'the relig...

Foucault's intellectual indebtedness to Nietzsche is apparent in his writing, yet the precise nature, extent, and nuances of that debt are seldom explored. Foucault himself seems sometimes to claim that his approach is essentially Nietzschean, and sometimes to insist that he amounts to a radical break with Nietzsche. This volume is the first of its kind, presenting the relationship between these two thinkers on elements of contemporary culture that they shared interests in, including the n...