Realist Responses to Post-Human Society: Ex Machina

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
List of illustrations
List of contributors
1. Introduction: Post-humanism in morphogenic societies
	Sociological context: the significance of living in morphogenic societies
	Vindicating humanity in morphogenic societies
	Note
	References
2. Bodies, persons and human enhancement: Why these distinctions matter
	Introduction
	What role for the body? Bodies and selfhood
	Three approaches to personhood
	From selfhood to personhood
	Conclusion: humankind and bodily enhancement
	Notes
	References
3. Vulcans, Klingons, and humans: What does humanism encompass?
	Introduction
	The humanist target of poststructuralism
	The I and the Thou
	Persons
	Machine anxiety
	The relationality debate
	How do we know?
	Human rights
	Conclusion
	Notes
	References
4. Transcending the human: Why, where, and how?
	What does ‘transcending the human’ mean? The issue
	Three scenarios of human evolution
	The distinction human/non-human as a transcendental relation, and its enigma
	How can we confront the enigma?
	We need a new relational cultural matrix
	The social ontology of the relation in and through which the human is transcended
	When can a social form be called human?
	In conclusion: the transcendence of the human lies in the social relation
	Notes
	References
5. Yesterday’s tomorrow today: Turing, Searle and the contested significance of artificial intelligence
	Introduction
	Two concepts of artificial intelligence (AI)
	Shifting, adequacy and the interstitial problem
	Transhumanism lower and upper case (th↔TH)
	Turing, AIw and AIs: finding a question that can be answered
	Playing the imitation game, substitution as seduction
	Searle: AIs, semantic versus syntax and the failure of successful simulation
	Dispute perpetuated through the limits of argument: designing a
successful failure and the context of ‘insufficient’
	AIw and AIs: resolutely unresolved lines of inquiry
	What follows from function: interstitial problems and ontology as critique
	Constitution and second subcategory AIs
	From Searle to real problems of ‘AI’
	Function, AI, substitution, delegation and Relational Goods
	Conclusion
	Notes
	References
6. Trans-human (life-)time: Emergent biographies and the ‘deep change’ in personal reflexivity
	Introduction
	Time and the post-human: an approach to trans-humanization, sociology, and cultural critique
	Time categories and personal biographies: the temporal fabric of human subjectivity
	Toward trans-human lifetimes
	Emergent biographies and their time: a few examples
	Conclusion: changing time structures and the emerging bulimic self
	Notes
	References
7. The evisceration of the human under digital capitalism
	Introduction
	The emergence of ‘big data’
	The epistemology of transactional data
	The politics of transactional data
	Conclusion
	Notes
	References
8. Management and dehumanisation in late modernity
	Introduction
	Management and organisation studies: guilty of dehumanisation?
	Management and organisation: a century of dehumanisation
	How can we rehumanise organisation and management studies?
	Notes
	References
Index