Speculation : : A Cultural History from Aristotle to AI / / Gayle Rogers.
In the modern world, why do we still resort to speculation? Advances in scientific and statistical reasoning are supposed to have provided greater certainty in making claims about the future. Yet we constantly spin out scenarios about tomorrow, for ourselves or for entire societies, with flimsy or n...
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Rogers, Gayle, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Speculation : A Cultural History from Aristotle to AI / Gayle Rogers. New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2021] ©2021 1 online resource text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- 1 THE MIRROR AND THE WATCHTOWER -- 2 EXPERIMENTING ON THOUGHT -- 3 GAMBLING ON A WORD -- 4 AMERICA THE SPECULATIVE -- 5 SPECULITIS, OR THE TECHNOLOGIES OF PROPHECY -- 6 THE LADY SPECULATOR -- CONCLUSION Speculative Risks, Inhuman Imaginations -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- NOTES -- INDEX restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star In the modern world, why do we still resort to speculation? Advances in scientific and statistical reasoning are supposed to have provided greater certainty in making claims about the future. Yet we constantly spin out scenarios about tomorrow, for ourselves or for entire societies, with flimsy or no evidence. Insubstantial speculations—from utopian thinking to high-risk stock gambles—often provoke fierce backlash, even when they prove prophetic for the world we come to inhabit. Why does this hypothetical way of thinking generate such controversy?In this cultural, literary, and intellectual history, Gayle Rogers traces debates over speculation from antiquity to the present. Celebrated by Boethius as the height of humanity’s mental powers but denigrated as sinful by John Calvin, speculation eventually became central to the scientific revolution’s new methods of seeing the natural world. In the nineteenth century, writers such as Jane Austen used the concept to diagnose the marriage market, redefining speculation for the purpose of social critique. Speculation fueled the development of modern capitalism, spurring booms, busts, and bubbles, and recently artificial intelligence has automated the speculation previously done by humans, with uncertain and troubling consequences. Unraveling these histories and many other disputes, Rogers argues that what has always been at stake in arguments over speculation, and why it so often appears so threatening, is the authority to produce and control knowledge about the future.Recasting centuries of contests over the power to anticipate tomorrow, this book reveals the crucial role speculation has played in how we create—and potentially destroy—the future. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 01. Dez 2022) Speculation History. LITERARY CRITICISM / General. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2021 9783110739077 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2021 English 9783110754001 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2021 9783110753776 ZDB-23-DGG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Literary, Cultural, Area Studies 2021 English 9783110754124 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Literary, Cultural, Area Studies 2021 9783110753899 ZDB-23-DKU https://doi.org/10.7312/roge20020 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780231553490 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780231553490/original |
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