1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910140257303321

Autore

Bernard Anna <1979->

Titolo

Rhetorics of belonging : nation, narration, and Israel/Palestine / / Anna Bernard [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Liverpool, : Liverpool University Press, 2018

Liverpool : , : Liverpool University Press, , 2013

ISBN

1-78138-104-6

1-78138-573-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (viii, 205 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Postcolonialism across the disciplines ; ; 14

Disciplina

892.409382

Soggetti

Arab-Israeli conflict - Literature and the conflict

Jewish-Arab relations in literature

Israeli literature - 20th century - History and criticism

Arabic literature - 20th century - History and criticism

Hebrew literature - 20th century - History and criticism

Palestine In literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 11 Aug 2017).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-195) and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Reading for the Nation -- 2. Exile and Liberation: Edward Said's 'Out of Place' -- 3. 'Who Would Dare to Make It Into an Abstraction': Mourid Barghouti's 'I Saw Ramallah' -- 4. 'Israel is Not South Africa': Amos Oz's 'Living Utopias' -- 5. Intersectional Allegories: Orly Castel-Bloom and Sahar Khalifeh -- 6. 'An Act of Defiance Against Them All': Anton Shammas' 'Arabesques'.

Sommario/riassunto

The crisis in Israel/Palestine has long been the world's most visible military conflict. Yet the region's cultural and intellectual life remains all but unknown to most foreign observers, which means that literary texts that make it into circulation abroad tend to be received as historical documents rather than aesthetic artefacts. Rhetorics of Belonging examines the diverse ways in which Palestinian and Israeli world writers have responded to the expectation that they will 'narrate' the nation, invigorating critical debates about the political and artistic value of national narration as a reading and writing practice. It considers writers whose work is rarely discussed together, offering new readings of the



work of Edward Said, Amos Oz, Mourid Barghouti, Orly Castel-Bloom, Sahar Khalifeh, and Anton Shammas. This book helps to restore the category of the nation to contemporary literary criticism by attending to a context where the idea of the nation is so central a part of everyday experience that writers cannot not address it, and readers cannot help but read for it. It also points a way toward a relational literary history of Israel/Palestine, one that would situate Palestinian and Israeli writing in the context of a history of antagonistic interaction. The book's findings are relevant not only for scholars working in postcolonial studies and Israel/Palestine studies, but for anyone interested in the difficult and unpredictable intersections of literature and politics.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910956822003321

Autore

Wilson Elizabeth A.

Titolo

Affect and Artificial Intelligence

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Seattle, WA, USA, : University of Washington Press, 2010

University of Washington Press

ISBN

9780295800004

0295800003

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (197 p.)

Collana

In vivo : the cultural mediations of biomedical science Affect and artificial intelligence

Classificazione

ST 300

Disciplina

006.3

Soggetti

COMPUTERS

History

Artificial intelligence - Psychological aspects

Information technology

Affect (Psychology)

Emotions

Engineering & Applied Sciences

Computer Science

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph



Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Machine Has No Fear -- 1. The Positive Affects of Alan Turing -- 2. Shaming AI: Helplessness, Confusion, and Error -- 3. Artificial Psychotherapy -- 4. Walter Pitts and the Inhibition of Affect -- Notes -- Appendixes -- References -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

In 1950, Alan Turing, the British mathematician, cryptographer, and computer pioneer, looked to the future: now that the conceptual and technical parameters for electronic brains had been established, what kind of intelligence could be built? Should machine intelligence mimic the abstract thinking of a chess player or should it be more like the developing mind of a child? Should an intelligent agent only think, or should it also learn, feel, and grow? Affect and Artificial Intelligence is the first in-depth analysis of affect and intersubjectivity in the computational sciences. Elizabeth Wilson makes use of archival and unpublished material from the early years of AI (1945-70) until the present to show that early researchers were more engaged with questions of emotion than many commentators have assumed. She documents how affectivity was managed in the canonical works of Walter Pitts in the 1940s and Turing in the 1950s, in projects from the 1960s that injected artificial agents into psychotherapeutic encounters, in chess-playing machines from the 1940s to the present, and in the Kismet (sociable robotics) project at MIT in the 1990s.