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Representations of Otherness: How Literature Reflects Implications of Digitalization and Artificial Intelligence on Humaneness and Societies

Repräsentationen des Andersseins: Wie Literatur die Implikationen von Digitalisierung und künstlicher Intelligenz auf Menschlichkeit und Gesellschaft widerspiegelt
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Brandstetter, Nicole

Abstract

Fictional narratives concerning science and technology, and specifically science fictionnarratives, are centred upon questions of difference, alterity and Otherness. Thoughnot representing classical science fiction texts, the analyzed novels display a key roleattributed to technological advancement ... view more

Fictional narratives concerning science and technology, and specifically science fictionnarratives, are centred upon questions of difference, alterity and Otherness. Thoughnot representing classical science fiction texts, the analyzed novels display a key roleattributed to technological advancement and thus incorporate and discuss that centralquestion of Otherness in external and internal representation. Firstly, Ian McEwan's novel Machines Like Me (2019) and Kazuo Ishiguro's novel Klara and the Sun (2021) superficially deal with human-machine interaction, but also more subtly mirrorhumaneness in contrast to a perfectionist Machine Otherness that, in turn, questionshuman morality. Secondly, Juli Zeh's novel Leere Herzen (Empty Hearts) (2017) and Julia von Lucadou's novel Die Hochhausspringerin (The High Rise Diver) (2018) subconsciously display the more disruptive influences of Artificial Intelligence onsocieties. The conception of Otherness is thus not rooted in the opposition between machines and human beings, but in a steady process of self-alienation.... view less


Fiktionale Narrative über Technik, speziell auch klassische Science-Fiction Literatur, beschäftigen sich mit Fragen zu Unterschiedlichkeit, Alterität und Anderssein. Obschon die analysierten Romane keine klassischen Science-Fiction Romane sind, illustrieren sie die zentrale Rolle, die dem technische... view more

Fiktionale Narrative über Technik, speziell auch klassische Science-Fiction Literatur, beschäftigen sich mit Fragen zu Unterschiedlichkeit, Alterität und Anderssein. Obschon die analysierten Romane keine klassischen Science-Fiction Romane sind, illustrieren sie die zentrale Rolle, die dem technischen Fortschritt dabei zugeschrieben wird. Dadurch werden Fragen zu Anderssein in interner und externer Repräsentation gestellt. Zum einen handelt es sich um Narrative wie die Romane Machines Like Me (2019) von Ian McEwan und Klara and the Sun (2021) von Kazuo Ishiguro, die an der Oberfläche Mensch-Maschine-Interaktionen als Topos behandeln. Jedoch erzählen diese in subtiler Weise, wie Menschlichkeit in Kontrast zu "Machine Otherness" gesetzt wird und damit menschliche Moralvorstellungen in Frage gestellt werden. Zum anderen zeigen die deutschen Romane Leere Herzen (2017) von Juli Zeh und Die Hochhausspringerin (2018) von Julia von Lucadou, wie und zu welchem Ausmaß Künstliche Intelligenz unsere Gesellschaft disruptiv beeinflusst. Das Konzept des Andersseins ist dabei nicht in der Opposition zwischen Maschinen und Menschen verwurzelt, sondern in einem konstanten Prozess der Selbstentfremdung.... view less

Keywords
literature; artificial intelligence; personality traits; human being; machine; interaction

Classification
Media Contents, Content Analysis
Cultural Sociology, Sociology of Art, Sociology of Literature

Free Keywords
Otherness; Artificial Intelligence; human-machine interaction; digitalization; self-optimization; Anderssein; Künstliche Intelligenz; Mensch-Maschine Interaktion; Digitalisierung; Selbstoptimierung

Document language
English

Publication Year
2022

Page/Pages
p. 35-48

Journal
interculture journal: Online-Zeitschrift für interkulturelle Studien, 21 (2022) 36

Issue topic
Cyber-Utopia / Dystopia? Digital Interculturality between Cosmopolitan and Authoritarian Currents

ISSN
2196-9485

Status
Published Version; peer reviewed

Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0


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