{"title":"Yuk Hui","description":"\u003cp\u003eYuk Hui’s works explore the intricate relationships between technology, philosophy, and society, inviting readers to reconsider the implications of machines in human life. With a profound focus on the convergence of metaphysics and computation, these books challenge conventional understandings of sovereignty and technological agency.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIdeal for readers drawn to contemporary philosophy and critical theory, Hui’s writings offer a nuanced examination of how technology shapes our world and the frameworks through which we interpret it. His thought-provoking analyses engage with both historical and future-oriented perspectives on the evolving nature of machine and human interaction.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"machine-and-sovereignty-by-yuk-hui-9781517917418","title":"Machine and Sovereignty","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDeveloping a new political thought to address today's planetary crises.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhat is 'planetary thinking' today? Arguing that a new approach is urgently needed, Yuk Hui develops a future-oriented mode of political thought that encompasses the unprecedented global challenges we are confronting: the rise of artificial intelligence, the ecological crisis, and intensifying geopolitical conflicts.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMachine and Sovereignty\u003c\/i\u003e starts with three premises. The first affirms the necessity of developing a new language of coexistence that surpasses the limits of nation-states and their variations; the second recognises that political forms, including the polis, empire, and the state, are technological phenomena, which Lewis Mumford terms 'megamachines'. The third suggests that a particular political form is legitimated and rationalised by a corresponding political epistemology.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe planetary thinking that this book sketches departs from the opposition between mechanism and organism, which characterised modern thought, to understand the epistemological foundations of Hegel's political state and Schmitt's \u003ci\u003eGroraum\u003c\/i\u003e and their particular ways of conceiving the question of sovereignty. Through this reconstruction, Hui exposes the limits of the state and reflects on a new theoretical matrix based on the interrelated concepts of biodiversity, noodiversity, and technodiversity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eArguing that we are facing the limit of modernity, of the eschatological view of history, of globalisation, and of the human, Hui conceives necessary new epistemological and technological frameworks for understanding and rising to the crises of our present and our future.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"NewSouth Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47000678039788,"sku":"9781517917418","price":64.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/11939063482728.jpg?v=1763295773"},{"product_id":"kant-machine-by-yuk-hui-9781350602502","title":"Kant Machine","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRethinking the philosophy of Immanuel Kant in the age of artificial intelligence.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhat could be called an intelligent machine? Are machines capable of being moral? Does an algorithm for perpetual peace exist? In this groundbreaking new work, Yuk Hui considers how current debates on artificial intelligence echo historical philosophical discussions about the workings of the mind, with the philosophy of Immanuel Kant emerging as a lens through which to consider the ethical and political implications of AI and robotics in a new light.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAddressing fundamental questions around machine intelligence and morality, transcendental idealism and learning, and the metaphysics of machines, the history of AI and Kantian ideas are expertly woven together alongside an array of figures in the histories of technology and philosophy: from Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz and Alan Turing to Hubert Dreyfus and Jacques de Vaucanson.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn asking how we can understand AI in light of the challenges Kant posed to both rationalism and empiricism, and how revisiting Kant can help us better comprehend the nature and limitations of contemporary technologies, \u003cem\u003eKant Machine\u003c\/em\u003e is an essential critical contribution both to Kant studies and to the philosophy of digital technology.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47558952714476,"sku":"9781350602502","price":40.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781350602502-kant-machine.jpg?v=1776923498"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.pro\/collections\/yuk-hui.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}