The Ethos of Digital Environments: Technology, Literary Theory and Philosophy
In: Perspectives on the Non-Human in Literature and Culture Ser.
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of figures -- List of contributors -- Introduction: From Solving Mechanical Dilemmas to Taking Care of Digital Ecology -- Should a Self-driving Car -- PART I: Digital Ecologies Today -- 1. Three Species Challenges: Toward a General Ecology of Cognitive Assemblages -- PART II: The Ethos: Description and Formation -- 2. Viral Storytelling as Contemporary Narrative Didacticism: Deriving Universal Truths from Arbitrary Narratives of Personal Experience -- 3. Authorship vs. Assemblage in Digital Media -- 4. The Logic of Selection and Poetics of Cultural Interfaces: A Literature of Full Automation? -- 5. Ghosts Beyond the Machine: "Schizoid Nondroids" and Fictions of Surveillance Capitalism -- PART III: The Ethos: Entanglement and Delegation -- 6. The Zombies of the Digital: What Justice Should We Wait For? -- 7. Just Machines. On Algorithmic Ethos and Justice -- 8. Automation: Between Factuality and Normativity -- 9. How Agents Lost their Cognitive Capacities within the Computational Evolution of Market Competition -- 10. Thinking about Google Search As #DigitalColonialism -- PART IV: The Ethos: Thinking, Computing, and Ethics -- 11. The Light of Morality and the Light of the Machine -- 12. What Do We Call "Thinking" in the Age of Artificial Intelligence and Moral Machines? -- 13. Can a Machine Have a Soul? -- 14. The Chiasm: Thinking Things and Thinging Thoughts. Our Being with Technology -- Index.