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Christian Eschatology of Artificial Intelligence (2024)
by Giorgi Vachnadze
11x18185 pagesB&W€12
“This is a hysterical book!”
Giorgi Vachnadze took two negatives, Artificial Intelligence and Christianity, and made a plus, through a process of smashing the two discourses together. The author describes their process as involving a double-lens of Foucault & Wittgenstein, though in their elaborations on the Machine and the Flesh, he creates some curious fusions between Wittgenstein and an unlikely collaborator: Deleuze. This collage of scripture and technological discourse produces unexpected outcomes, and is highly valuable in how it recodes signs, and how it produces alternative possibilities in the discourse of Machines, Thinking and Calculation.
“It’s a hysterical book, in the sense that is your own psychoanalysis made out of theory. Lacan is going to say that you should hystericize in analysis, analysis must exist in hysteria”—Lucas Ferraço Nassif
Specifications:
Dimensions: 11x18cm
Binding: Perfect Bound
Pages: 185pp.
ISBN: 978-9925-8118-8-5
Paper: 300g/m2 Bilderdruck Matt & 80g/m2 Munken White
Fonts: Fira Sans Condensed & Lora
Language: English
Released: 12th October 2024
Credits:
Author: Giorgi Vachnadze
Editor: Palais Sinclaire
Art & Design: Palais Sinclaire
Layout & Typography: Polymnia Tsinti
From a history of Techniques of Governance in relation to Techniques of Self-Formation,
to an elaboration on the Thinking of various Machines
Through this careful semiotic practice, the author finds way in which the conversation opens up into all kinds of areas, arriving quickly at the discussion of what it means to think, whether a computer can really think, and, equally, whether a human can really compute. This discussion then bleeds into a broader dialogue about machines, elaborating on the difference between Turing machines and Deleuzean machines, and why such a distinction is useful for thinking the philosophy of technology. Like Wittgenstein himself, the author is able to bring the topic of Flesh into the question of machines—it’s unique in this way.
Will an Bionic Christ come to die for our sins;
will an algorithm shepherd us through the valley of doomscrolling?
We don’t know; it sounds silly, at first—so why can’t we stop thinking about it?