If speech defines humanity, what happens when machines can talk?
Last Words is a critical exegesis by Paul Kockelman that This slim text lays out a critical genealogy of the highly contested relation between human values, machinic parameters, and corporate powers. It also provides a theory of the reasons for, and effects of, our current social and technological horizon.
Dispatches from the author
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The conversation elsewhere
Pundits, professors, and politicians are discussing The Know-Nothing Campaign and its concerns across media and the university ecosystem.