Saturday, April 18, 2020

The Future Has Already Happened
Alex Levant

Correspondence: alevant@wlu.ca
https://pubs.biblio.laurentian.ca/index.php/contexte/article/download/264/243/
Alex Levant is Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Canada. He specializes in critical media theory and emerging/future technologies. His work has appeared in various journals, including Historical Materialism, Critique, Stasis, Educational Review, among
others. He is editor (with Vesa Oittinen) of Dialectics of the Ideal (Brill, 2014).
Abstract: 
This article interrogates current conceptions of thinking machines of the future. In
contrast to dystopian visions of the future, where humans become dominated by machines of their own making, I argue that this future already happened some time ago, and that we are, in fact, already living in the future that we dread might come to pass.

Keywords: posthuman theory, artificial intelligence, capital, subjectivity

Con Texte 2 (2018) ISSN 2561-4770
CC-BY 4.0
Levant / The Future Has Already Happened
doi:10.28984/ct.v2i1.264

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