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ISBN: 9780141994277

Inhalt: " 'Heady, exhilarating, often astonishing' New York Times 'Iridescently original, deeply disorientating and yet somehow radically hopeful ... worth reading and rereading' Brian Eno 'Be prepared to re-evaluate your relationship with the amazing life forms with whom we share the planet. Fascinating, innovative and thought provoking: I thoroughly recommend Ways of Being ' Dr Jane Goodall, DBE, Founder of the Jane Goodall Institute and UN Messenger of Peace Recent years have seen rapid advances in 'artificial' intelligence, which increasingly appears to be something stranger than we ever imagined. At the same time, we are becoming more aware of the other intelligences which have been with us all along, unrecognized. These other beings are the animals, plants, and natural systems that surround us, and are slowly revealing their complexity and knowledge - just as the new technologies we've built are threatening to cause their extinction, and ours. In Ways of Being , writer and artist James Bridle considers the fascinating, uncanny and multiple ways of existing on earth. What can we learn from these other forms of intelligence and personhood, and how can we change our societies to live more equitably with one another and the non-human world? From Greek oracles to octopuses, forests to satellites, Bridle tells a radical new story about ecology, technology and intelligence. We must, they argue, expand our definition of these terms to build a meaningful and free relationship with the non-human, one based on solidarity and cognitive diversity. We have so much to learn, and many worlds to gain. 'Brilliant ... Bridle shows the importance of listening to one another and our surroundings, and of creating new forms of community' Hans Ulrich Obrist "

Inhalt: Biographisches: " James Bridle is author of the acclaimed New Dark Age , about technology, knowledge and the end of the future. They wrote and presented the BBC Radio 4 series New Ways of Seeing , about how technology is changing visual culture,their writing on art, politics, culture and technology has appeared in magazines and newspapers including the Guardian , Wired , New Statesman , Frieze and ICON . Their artworks have been commissioned by galleries and institutions, including the V&A, Whitechapel, Barbican, Hayward and Serpentine, and exhibited worldwide and on the internet." Rezension(2): "New Statesman Books of the Year:Bridle's writing weaves cultural threads that aren't usually seen together, and the resulting tapestry is iridescently original, deeply disorientating and yet somehow radically hopeful. The only futures that are viable will probably feel like that. This is a pretty amazing book, worth reading and rereading. " Rezension(3): "New York Times:James Bridle is an artist who is fascinated by technology - creating a homemade self-driving car to understand how AIs think, for example - and I loved their book, Ways of Being , which looks at artificial and animal intelligence, and how those challenge our assumptions about the world. Come for the slime mould replicating the Tokyo subway system, stay for the non-binary computer that used water to model the British economy." Rezension(4): "Washington Post: Heady and often astonishing ... the scope of Bridle's curiosity and comprehension is immense ... there is something hopeful and even heartening in their faith that our current disastrous course might be shifted not only by new policies and technologies but also - and more fundamentally - by the power of new ideas." Rezension(5): "The Economist:If you plan on reading James Bridle's Ways of Being - and I cannot recommend highly enough that you do - you might consider forming a support group first. The ideas in this book are so big, so fascinating and yes, so foreign, you are going to need people to talk to about them ... Bridle has created a new way of thinking about our world, about being ... read this important book. Read it twice. Talk about it. Tell everyone you know. " Rezension(6): "Post Magazine:It was so interesting that I luxuriated in every word. The conversation unfolding in these pages is fundamentally important and I would recommend it to absolutely everyone who wants to really think and reimagine a future that remains ours to make. I was left with a feeling that James Bridle hasn't so much written a book, as a manifesto for a new Green Enlightenment ... it made the hair stand up on the back of my neck. " Rezension(7): "Geographical:In making clear the patience, imagination and humility required to better know and protect other forms of intelligence on Earth, Bridle has made an admirable contribution to the dawning interspecies age. " Rezension(8): "The Spectator:Bridle is a clear, artful writer and a sweeping thinker ... [A] hopeful book, almost an antidote. It imagines technology not as something separate and menacing, but as part of a grand unfolding - an 'efflorescence', to use Bridle's word - along an evolutionary continuum of human and 'more-than-human' ways of being in the world." Rezension(9): " Publisher's Weekly : May 2, 2022 A human-centric notion of intelligence takes the backseat in this fascinating survey from artist Bridle ( New Dark Age ). Intelligence, he writes, “is not something to be tested, but something to be recognized, in all the multiple forms that it takes.” To that end, he notes that plants have the “ability... to remember” and self-driving cars exhibit knowledge with their neural networks and learning patterns. Indeed, one of the author’s key insights is the way momentous advances in technology can lead to a better understanding of the “more-than-human world.” In a prime example, the rise of the internet and the corresponding notion of network theory made possible the discovery of how such networks operate “in the real world,” namely in the symbiotic relationships that connect fungi and plant roots in the forest. Bridle makes a solid case for his argument that “everything is intelligent” and that all life on Earth is interconnected, and his notion that intelligence is “one among many ways of being in the world” is well reasoned and convincing. This enlightening account will give readers a new perspective on their place in the world. Agent: Antony Topping, Greene &,Heaton (U.K.). "

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