[Air-L] New book: Digital Humanism: A Philosophy for 21st Century Digital Society (Christian Fuchs)

[Christian Fuchs]

Fuchs, Christian. 2022. Digital Humanism. A Philosophy for 21st Century 
Digital Society. SocietyNow Series. Bingley: Emerald.


More information and sample reading:
https://fuchsc.uti.at/books/digital-humanism/

Our contemporary global digital society is not always a good place to 
live. Authoritarianism, hatred, false news, post-truth culture, the 
COVID-19 anti-vaccination movement, COVID-19 conspiracy theories, and 
political polarisation are organised via the Internet. The public sphere 
is highly polarised. Today, many humans tend to think of other humans 
mainly in terms of friends and enemies. Robots and Artificial 
Intelligence-based automation have created new challenges for the world 
of work. Decades of neoliberalism have increased inequalities. The 
COVID-19 pandemic has shown the vulnerability of humanity to viruses and 
health crises.


Humanity and society are in a major crisis and digitalisation mediates 
this crisis. /Digital Humanism/ explores how Humanism can help us to 
critically understand how digital technologies shape society and 
humanity, providing an introduction to Humanism in the digital age. 
Fuchs introduces the approach of Digital Humanism and outlines 
foundations of a Radical Digital Humanism, analysing what decolonisation 
of academia and the study of the digital, media and communication means; 
what the roles are of robots, automation, and Artificial Intelligence in 
digital capitalism, and how the communication of death and dying has 
been mediated by digital technologies, capitalist necropower, and 
digital capitalism. In order to save humanity and society, we need 
Radical Digital Humanism now.

“Digital Humanism is the book we have been waiting for. … Digital 
Humanism refuses to transform humans into machines and to think of 
machines as humans. This is why this book is such an important and 
timely intervention"
Eva Illouz, Director of Studies at EHESS, Paris/

//Table of Contents

/Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. What is Humanism?
Chapter 3. What is Digital Humanism?
Chapter 4. Decolonising Academia: A Radical Humanist Perspective
Chapter 5. Robots and Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Digital Capitalism
Chapter 6. Policy Discourses on Robots and Artificial Intelligence (AI) 
in the EU, the USA, and China
Chapter 7. Necropower, Death, and Digital Communication in Covid-19 
Capitalism
Chapter 8. Conclusion