{"product_id":"christian-eschatology-of-artificial-intelligence-pastoral-technologies-of-cybernetic-flesh-by-giorgi-vachnadze","title":"CHRISTIAN ESCHATOLOGY OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: PASTORAL TECHNOLOGIES OF CYBERNETIC FLESH by Giorgi Vachnadze","description":"\u003cp\u003e110 x 180mm, 185 pages, Black \u0026amp; white printing, Perfect bound, Softcover, 2024\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTo write in Georgia is to write between two superpowers, the West and Russia; the only way to create space for oneself is to pit these powers against each other. In a way, a writer writing in Georgia is also caught between the hegemonies of Corporate-AI Neoliberalism and Orthodox Christianity. Set in motion by a punk, reactionary impulse, Giorgi Vachnadze pits these two overbearing symbolics against each other; what falls out when two discourses are concatenated against each other: a new signifier? An object a? A mathematical remainder?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOn a certain epistemic level, pitting AI against Christianity is a sublimation of pitting Capital against itself, an intensification of Capital that seeks to push it towards collapse; the author has thus built a discourse accelerator. This is a hysterical book, where two negatives are brought together and then fed through a positivistic, double-meat-grinder of Foucault and Wittgenstein, and what remained, so to speak, was almost unreasonably interesting. It is not just one thing that falls out of this dialectic, but dozens; the collision brings to the surface a great deal of interesting subject matter, from the sociology of calculation, to the semiotics of the Flesh, to encratic regimes of self-governance, colonialism and sexuality.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhether read as a strategic move or a rant, the book is very entertaining in its shifting around from detailed studies of Alan Turing’s philosophical work, to close readings of Biblical scripture—the selection of these two signifiers, AI \u0026amp; Christianity, wasn’t, after all, just an isolated grievance, but a neurotic symptom atop a deeply rooted contradiction playing out within the subjectivity of the author—so while it is, in a way, an auto-psychoanalytical production, it might as well be any of us in the chair, right?   \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublished by\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Becoming Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56454562677122,"sku":null,"price":11.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/5338\/0582\/files\/IMG_8893009.jpg?v=1773153867","url":"https:\/\/goodpress.co.uk\/products\/christian-eschatology-of-artificial-intelligence-pastoral-technologies-of-cybernetic-flesh-by-giorgi-vachnadze","provider":"Good Press — good books \u0026 more","version":"1.0","type":"link"}