1st Edition

Post-Human Institutions and Organizations Confronting the Matrix

Edited By Ismael Al-Amoudi, Emmanuel Lazega Copyright 2019
    176 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    176 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    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.

    1. Introduction: Digital Society’s Techno-totalitarian Matrix

    Ismael Al-Amoudi and Emmanuel Lazega

    2. What They Are Saying About Artificial Intelligence and Human Enhancement

    Doug Porpora

    3. Considering Artificial Intelligence 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 S. Latsis

    8. Swarm-Teams With Digital Exoskeleton: On New Military Templates For The Organizational Society

    Emmanuel Lazega

    Biography

    Ismael Al-Amoudi is Professor at Grenoble Ecole de Management, Univ Grenoble Alpes ComUE, France.





    Emmanuel Lazega is Professor at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po), France.