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The 21st-century has witnessed rapid advances in artificial intelligence, giving rise to a society at once hopeful but also mistrustful of the possibilities that this technology offers. Our hopes and anxieties have played out across a variety of media in recent times, but arguably nowhere more significantly than on our screens.
This book explores a phenomenon, which it calls the new AI cinema and television, arguing that since the mid-2010s, a distinctly new phase in the representation of AI has occurred. Discussing films such as Blade Runner 2049, Ex Machina and Ghost in the Shell alongside television series such as Westworld and Humans, it argues that they have moved away from apocalyptic scenarios towards questions of personhood, consciousness, and social inclusion and exclusion. In doing so, it intervenes in some of today's most pressing debates, including gender representation, AI ethics, climate catastrophe, and the rights of artificially intelligent beings.
Table of Contents
A Coda to the Introduction: Intelligence, Consciousness and Monsters
2. A New Take On Romance
The Gravity of Form
Ex Machina
The Uncanny and the Sublime
Her
Zoe
I'm Your Man
3. Bridges, Walls, and Laws
Asimov's Three Laws and Beyond
Beyond Control: The Limits of Regulation
I Robot
Automata
Blade Runner 2049
4. Other than us: Towards Personhood
Other Than Us
Humans
Better Than Us
5. The Singularity 1. Representing the Singularity
Transcendence
Tau
6. The Singularity 2. Westworld and the Quest for Personhood
some kind of change': Revolution and Robotics
The Bicameral Mind
'I imagined a story where I didn't have to be the damsel' ('Contrapasso'): Delores's Story
'Now Boys, We're Going To Have Some Fun' ('The Adversary'): Maeve's Story
Under the Law of Rehoboam
Character and Catachresis
7. Sites of Conflict: Sex, Family, War
Sex and the modern cyborg
AI, Sex and Weaponization
The Family Unit 2.0.
The Machine
Morgan
Blended Family: Chappie
8. Artificial Intelligence and Environmental Collapse
The Future As We Know It
A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001): Dead Zones and Drowned Cities
I Am Mother
The Infinite City in Ghost in the Shell
Ghost in the Shell from manga to the movies
The Major and the Future
9. Conclusion: An Open Society
10 Notes
11 Works Cited
12. Index
Product details
| Published | Jun 26 2025 |
|---|---|
| Format | Hardback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 240 |
| ISBN | 9781350378032 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Dimensions | 9 x 6 inches |
| Series | Bloomsbury Studies in Digital Cultures |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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