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Technology and Barbarism: Or: How Billionaires Will Save Us from the End of the World

by Michel Nieva

Technology, art, and the limits of progress

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Technology, art, and the limits of progress

Michel Nieva’s nonfiction brings technology into conversation with art, science, history, and literature. The collection includes the long essay “Capitalist Science Fiction” and considers how hard science fiction has helped shape ideas with both beneficial and harmful consequences. Across its subjects, the book examines the tensions between civilization and barbarism, including the place of genetics in the arts and humanities. Questions about Kafka’s possible encounters with human zoos and whether algorithms can understand poetry point to its interest in how technology and cultural history shape the ways people interpret one another.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in nonfiction at the intersection of technology, art, and science.
  • Readers curious about hard science fiction’s influence on contemporary ideas.
  • Readers interested in literary and historical approaches to genetics and culture.

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Technology and cultureScience fiction and social ideasCivilization and barbarismGenetics in the arts and humanities

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Book overview

Thought-provoking pieces of nonfiction exploring the crossroads of technology with art and science, as well as how hard science fiction has inspired the craziest ideas of our times, for the good and the bad. An essential read for the AI era.

The nonfiction pieces included in Technology and Barbarism, as well as the long essay "Capitalist Science Fiction," constitute the nonfiction alternative to Nieva's Dengue Boy and has similar potential to achieve cult-status. Equally fast and furious, grounded in deep research as well as far-reaching literary traditions, Nieva writes about the crossroads between civilization and barbarism through history, literature, and the incidence of genetics in the arts and humanities.

Could the inspiration for Kafka's stories have come from his visits to human zoos where he saw indigenous people kidnapped from Tierra del Fuego? Can an algorithm understand the verses of Rub
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