Description: Investigating how human values mediate the design and use of new technologies, the updated edition of Nolen Gertz's Nihilism and Technology explores the ramifications of artificial intelligence. Gertz searches for current meanings of "truth" and "progress" in the age of AI, an...
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"A hugely engaging book. Gertz manages to both provide a compelling and rich introduction to Friedrich Nietzsche and nihilism as well as avoid the all too common reductionism of popular discourse around technology. The book is a lively and convincing read, which thanks to its wide appeal and accessible and often dryly funny prose, deserves to find a wide audience far outside the often-narrow confines of academic philosophical discourse." --LSE Review of Books
"Nolen Gertz is remarkably adept at translating Nietzche's analysis of nihilistic living--which looks at how we develop strategies for coping with a way of life that undermines our very humanity--into instantly recognizable terms." --The New Atlantis "At times uncanny, yet thoroughly unsettling, Nihilism and Technology is an unquestionable synthesis of Nietzschean philosophy of nihilism brought to bear on our often overlooked uses and co-construction of technologies. A timely and original text that should be given exposure beyond the walls of the academy. Its philosophical rigour and treatment of human-technology relations makes it widely readable. It comes highly recommended." --Prometheus "A provocative and unsettling philosophical inquiry into our increasingly compulsive technological practices, revealing how our nihilism and our technologies have been raveled in a twist." --Hong Kong Review of Books