Postdigital Humans: Transitions, Transformations and Transcendence

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Series Editor’s Preface Acknowledgements Introduction Contents About the Editor About the Authors Part I: Conceptions of Postdigital Humans What Are Postdigital Humans? 1 Introduction 2 The Postdigital 3 What Does It Mean to Be Human? 4 Artificial Intelligence 5 Postdigital Humans 6 Humans and Machines 7 Digital Afterlife and Life Unlimited 8 Concerns About Postdigital Humans 9 Conclusion: Postdigital Intervals? References Postdigital Humans: Taking Evolution in Own Hands 1 Introduction 2 The Postdigital Human Early Works (1998–2018) Recent Works (2018–) 3 The Postdigital Human The First Performance Standard: Life The Second Performance Standard: Consciousness The Third Performance Standard: Behaviour 4 Conclusion: Self-Designated Evolution and Its Responsibilities References Part II: Postdigital Humans and Education Experience of Using a Virtual Life Coach: A Case Study of Novice Users 1 Introduction 2 Background 3 Method Recruitment and Data Collection The Virtual Life Coach 4 Results Pattern of Use Qualitative Analysis Understanding the Purpose Aesthetic Appeal Ease of Use and Functionality Usefulness and Importance 5 Discussion Challenges, Implications, and Recommendations 6 Conclusion References Venturing Beyond the Imposition of a Postdigital, Anti-human Higher Education 1 Introduction: The Morbidity of Higher Education 2 HE in the Shadow of Value 3 The Authoritarian Reproduction of Higher Education 4 In, Against, and Beyond the Digital 5 Composting the Anti-human University 6 Venturing Beyond a Postdigital Higher Education References The Value of Postdigital Humans as Objects, or Subjects, in McDonaldised Society 1 Introduction 2 McDonaldisation Across Recent Decades Recognising Humans as Moving Between Various ‘Cages’ 3 A Postdigital Context The Postdigital ‘Cages’ of Covid-19 4 Techlap or Techlash How Will Humans Bounce Back? 5 Digital Humanities or a Gathering of Postdigital Humans? Security, Consumption, or Both? 6 Conclusion: Equal But Not Equivalent References Postdigital Truths: Educational Reflections on Fake News and Digital Identities 1 Introduction 2 Education for Digital Competences 3 Managing Compromised Online Spaces 4 Being Digitally Present and Having a Digital Identity Caught in Echo Chambers and Filter Bubbles Information Literacy for Education 5 A Socio-material Methodology 6 A Socio-material Analysis in Three Vignettes Vignette: Critical Information Management Vignette: Opinion Management Vignette: Identity Management 7 Returning to the Human Actors: Conversations About Digital Competence 8 Discussion 9 Educational Consequences 10 Conclusion References Part III: Philosophy, Ethics and Religion Listening Like a Postdigital Human: The Politics and Knowledge of Noise 1 Introduction 2 Postdigital Esthetics 3 Postdigital Listening and (Anti)Colonialism 4 Listening and the Postdigital Human 5 Conclusion References Ethics, Character, and Community: Moral Formation and Modelling the Human 1 Introduction 2 Conceptualising the Human 3 Being Human and Being Good 4 Concepts and Boundaries of the Human 5 Ethics, AI, and Real Life 6 Human Moral Formation: Narratives and Markets 7 Character Dependency and the Self 8 Technology and Responsibility 9 Averting Moral Disaster? 10 Conclusion References The Computer’s Hidden Theology and Its Prospects for a Postdigital Humanity 1 Introduction: In Search of a Post-classical Understanding of the Computer 2 Taking Artificial Intelligence as Seriously as Human Intelligence 3 Computational Theism: The Computer as the Image of Its Human Creator 4 Computational Deism: The Computer as the Instantiation of an Impersonal Logos 5 Conclusion: The Path Back to the Political Economy of the Computer and the Postdigital Future References Postdigital Humans: Algorithmic Imagination? 1 Introduction 2 Postdigital Humans 3 Responding to ‘the Other’ 4 A Contemporary Theological Interpretation 5 Stiegler on the Digital and Imagination 6 Reason as Either Imagination or Calculation 7 Stiegler and Heidegger: The Role of Time in Imagination 8 Conclusion References Transcendent Conformity: The Question of Agency for Postdigital Humans 1 Introduction 2 Transhumanism and Posthumanism 3 Morphological Freedom 4 Posthuman Agency 5 Technosystem 6 Competition, War, and Profit 7 Posthuman Data 8 Surveillance Capitalism 9 Heuristics, Colonialism, and Totalitarianism 10 Conclusion References Index