Posthuman Institutions And Organizations First Margaret S Archer by Margaret S. Archer, Ismael Al-amoudi, Emmanuel Lazega 9780815377948, 9781351233477, 0815377940, 1351233475 instant download after payment.

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.