UT Humanities Center Public Books Circle: God, Human, Animal, Machine: Technology, Metaphor, and the Search for Meaning
Join our next Public Books Circle meeting with Dawn Coleman, Associate Professor of English.
Professor Coleman will lead a discussion of "God, Human, Animal, Machine: Technology, Metaphor, and the Search for Meaning" by Meghan O'Geiblyn
In this book, Meghan O'Geiblyn explores how the rise of artificial intelligence has reintroduced us to intractable philosophical problems about the nature of reality and consciousness. Writing as a personal essayist and former religious believer, O'Gieblyn weaves memoir and history into wry, contemplative observations on the contemporary technological landscape. Her approach draws on key thinkers in the Western tradition--John Calvin, Rene Descartes, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Hannah Arendt, and many more--to meditate on disenchantment, re-enchantment, and our relationship to the deep-learning machines that now surround us. Her book raises urgent questions about what it means to be human in the age of big data.
How it works:
Our Public Books Circle meets online one Wednesday a month and is free and open to the public. Each of our sessions is led by a UT professor, and everyone is welcome to add their voice to the discussion!
- Register for the book discussion meeting by clicking on the registration link below (you'll be sent a confirmation email with your own unique link to the discussion)
- Buy a copy of the book (Union Ave Books in downtown Knoxville will be happy to handle your order)
- Read, enjoy, and join the book discussion online on the date of the event!
Dawn Coleman is associate professor of English and affiliated faculty in Religious Studies at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. She is the author of Preaching and the Rise of the American Novel (2013) and numerous essays on American Literature, religion, and secularity. She has been the recipient of a UT Humanities Center Faculty Fellowship to support her book in progress: "Margaret's Ghosts: Inventing Secular Womanhood in American Literature."
Free and open to the public, but registration is required.
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Wednesday, March 2, 2022 at 7:00pm to 8:00pm
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