The Replaceability Paradigm: Replacement and Irreplaceability from Dante to DeepDream

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ยท Culture & Conflict ืกืคืจ 26 ยท Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
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ื”ื‘ื™ืงื•ืจื•ืช ื•ื”ื“ื™ืจื•ื’ื™ื ืœื ืžืื•ืžืชื™ืย ืžื™ื“ืข ื ื•ืกืฃ

ืžื™ื“ืข ืขืœ ื”ืกืคืจ ื”ื“ื™ื’ื™ื˜ืœื™ ื”ื–ื”

The trope of humans being โ€˜replacedโ€™ by โ€˜AIโ€™ is one of the most familiar examples of the rhetoric of replaceability. Not only have questions about what is unique and what is replaceable gained momentum in digital culture, but notions of โ€˜fungibilityโ€™ have emerged in many other contexts as well such as ecology, management theory, and, more sinisterly, in racist and conspiracist thinking. This volume argues that there is a โ€˜replaceability paradigmโ€™ at work throughout the culture of modernity, from the European Renaissance, through Freudian psychoanalysis, Chinese science fiction and postcolonial theory, all the way to neural network programs such as Googleโ€™s DeepDream. This collection will be of interest to anybody engaged with the conceptual architecture of contemporary culture, whether through film, literature, or new digital media.

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Niall Martin, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands; Ilios Willemars, Leiden University, Netherlands.

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