Adam Kirsch’s recent book, The Revolt Against Humanity, is not what you’d expect. Despite the title, it’s an oddly unpolemical account of tendencies in “post-humanism” that embrace our extinction, written in a flat but fluent style, in the series “Columbia Global Reports”—as if McKinsey had been hired to document the apocalypse. Kirsch, writes with summary detachment about anti-humanists who hope that our demise will be good for the rest of nature and post-humanists who welcome our replacement by more intelligent beings, perhaps in the form of advanced AI.
The Sense of an Ending
The Sense of an Ending
The Sense of an Ending
Adam Kirsch’s recent book, The Revolt Against Humanity, is not what you’d expect. Despite the title, it’s an oddly unpolemical account of tendencies in “post-humanism” that embrace our extinction, written in a flat but fluent style, in the series “Columbia Global Reports”—as if McKinsey had been hired to document the apocalypse. Kirsch, writes with summary detachment about anti-humanists who hope that our demise will be good for the rest of nature and post-humanists who welcome our replacement by more intelligent beings, perhaps in the form of advanced AI.