Being Human in the Digital World: Interdisciplinary Perspectives [Hardcover]

Provides new ways of interrogating our humanity as AI reshapes our socio-political relationships, lived environments, and bodies.This volume explores the different ways in which digital technologies might change the idea of being human. It investigates how our digitized society could transform the conditions that enable humans to direct their own lives, enjoy flourishing relationships, and be 'worthy of respect' in a networked world.This volume explores the different ways in which digital technologies might change the idea of being human. It investigates how our digitized society could transform the conditions that enable humans to direct their own lives, enjoy flourishing relationships, and be 'worthy of respect' in a networked world.Being Human in the Digital World is a collection of essays by prominent scholars from various disciplines exploring the impact of digitization on culture, politics, health, work, and relationships. The volume raises important questions about the future of human existence in a world where machine readability and algorithmic prediction are increasingly prevalent and offers new conceptual frameworks and vocabularies to help readers understand and challenge emerging paradigms of what it means to be human. Being Human in the Digital World is an invaluable resource for readers interested in the cultural, economic, political, philosophical, and social conditions that are necessary for a good digital life. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.1. Introduction Beate Roessler and Valerie Steeves; Part I. Conceptualizing the Digital Human: 2. Platform city people David Murakami Wood; 3. Robots, humans, and their vulnerabilities Beate Roessler; 4. Cultural foundations for conserving human capacities in an era of generative artificial intelligence: toward a philosophico-literary critique of simulation Frank Pasquale; 5. Surveillance and human flourishing: pandemic challenges David Lyon; Part II. Living the Digital Life: 6. Ilc“