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Ways of Being audiobook
- By: James Bridle
- Narrator: James Bridle
- Category: Computers, Intelligence (AI) & Semantics
- Length: 12 hours 2 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: June 21, 2022
- Language: English
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Ways of Being Audiobook Summary
“There’s joy in self-described “satellite nerd” James Bridle’s British-accented voice as he narrates this audiobook about consciousness and the search for planetary intelligence.” – AudioFile Magazine
This audiobook is read by the author.
Artist, technologist, and philosopher James Bridle’s Ways of Being is a brilliant, searching exploration of different kinds of intelligence–plant, animal, human, artificial–and how they transform our understanding of humans’ place in the cosmos.
What does it mean to be intelligent? Is it something unique to humans, or shared with other beings–beings of flesh, wood, stone, and silicon? The last few years have seen rapid advances in “artificial” intelligence. But as it approaches, it also gets weirder: rather than a friend or helpmate, AI increasingly appears as something stranger than we ever imagined, an alien invention that threatens to decenter and supplant us.
At the same time, we’re only just becoming aware of the other intelligences which have been with us all along, even if we’ve failed to recognize or acknowledge them. These others–the animals, plants, and natural systems that surround us are slowly revealing their complexity, agency, and knowledge, just as the technologies we’ve built to sustain ourselves are threatening to cause their extinction, and ours. What can we learn from them, and how can we change ourselves, our technologies, our societies, and our politics, to live better and more equitably with one another and the non-human world?
Artist and maverick thinker James Bridle drawn on biology and physics, computation, literature, art, and philosophy, to answer these unsettling questions. Startling and bold, Ways of Being explores the fascinating, strange and multitudinous forms of knowing, doing, and being which are becoming evident in the present, and which are essential for our survival.
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Ways of Being Audiobook Narrator
James Bridle is the narrator of Ways of Being audiobook that was written by James Bridle
James Bridle is a writer and an artist. Their writing on art, politics, culture, and technology has appeared in magazines and newspapers including The Guardian, The Observer, Wired, The Atlantic, the New Statesman, frieze, Domus, and ICON. New Dark Age, their book about technology, knowledge, and the end of the future, was published in 2018 and has been translated into more than a dozen languages. In 2019, they wrote and presented New Ways of Seeing, a four-part series for BBC Radio 4. Their artworks have been commissioned by galleries and institutions including the V&A, Whitechapel Gallery, the Barbican, Hayward Gallery, and the Serpentine and have been exhibited worldwide and on the internet.
About the Author(s) of Ways of Being
James Bridle is the author of Ways of Being
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Ways of Being Full Details
| Narrator | James Bridle |
| Length | 12 hours 2 minutes |
| Author | James Bridle |
| Category | |
| Publisher | Macmillan Audio |
| Release date | June 21, 2022 |
| ISBN | 9781250856111 |
Subjects
The publisher of the Ways of Being is Macmillan Audio. includes the following subjects: The BISAC Subject Code is Computers, Intelligence (AI) & Semantics
Additional info
The publisher of the Ways of Being is Macmillan Audio. The imprint is Macmillan Audio. It is supplied by Macmillan Audio. The ISBN-13 is 9781250856111.
Global Availability
This book is only available in the United States.
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