Christian Eschatology of Artificial Intelligence: Pastoral Technologies of Cybernetic Flesh by Giorgi Vachnadze

Giorgi Vachnadze took two negatives, Artificial Intelligence and Christianity, and made a plus, through a process of smashing the two discourses together. The author describes their process as involving a double-lens of Foucault & Wittgenstein, though in their elaborations on the Machine and the Flesh, he creates some curious fusions between Wittgenstein and an unlikely collaborator: Deleuze. This collage of scripture and technological discourse produces unexpected outcomes, and is highly valuable in how it recodes signs, and how it produces alternative possibilities in the discourse of Machines, Thinking and Calculation.     

“It’s a hysterical book, in the sense that is your own psychoanalysis made out of theory. Lacan is going to say that you should hystericize in analysis, analysis must exist in hysteria”—Lucas Ferraço Nassif

CONTENTS:

Author's Preface: How not to Read This Book
Introduction: Bio-Politics of Artificial Intelligence
Chapter One: Bionic Christ and the Diagram of the Flesh
Chapter Two: Music and the Poetics of Time
Chapter Three: The Incomputability of Computation
Chapter Four: The Silence of the Flesh
Chapter Five: My Mother is an AI
Chapter Six: The Heroic Tale of a Minority Machine
Non-Conclusion: AI Colonialism 

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BIO:

Giorgi Vachnadze is a Foucault and Wittgenstein scholar. He completed his Bachelor studies at New Mexico State University and received a Master’s qualification in philosophy at the University of Louvain. Former editor and peer-reviewer for the Graduate Student Journal of philosophy “The Apricot”, he has been published in multiple popular and academic journals world-wide. Vachnadze’s research focuses on philosophy of language and discourse analysis. Some of the questions and themes addressed in his work include: History of Combat Sports, Ancient Stoicism, Genealogies of Truth, Histories of Formal Systems, Genealogy of Science, Ethics in AI and Psychoanalysis, Media Archaeology, Game Studies and more.

DETAILS:
Authored by Giorgi Vachnadze
CAT #BECOMING007
ISBN: 978-9925-8118-8-5 (Print)
ISBN: 978-9925-8118-9-2 (Digital)
18 x 11 cm, Softcover, 185 pages
First Edition: October 2024

TO BE CITED AS:
Vachnadze, G. (2024) Christian Eschatology of Artificial Intelligence: Pastoral Technologies of Cybernetic Flesh. Berlin/Nicosia: Becoming. 978-9925-8118-8-5.