Artificial Violence

The Anthropocene, Ecocide and Artificial Intelligence
The book shows how the Anthropocene and artificial intelligence, fields that have come to define the early decades of the twenty-first century, have mediated practices of violence and transformed how violence is realised, requiring a reworkng of the concept.
Drawing on ideas from across the natural sciences, social sciences and humanities, James Tyner considers how the advent of the Anthropocene and and the coming age of artificial intelligence challenges us to rethink our notions of violence. Humanitys destruction of the Earth system, which has come to define the early decades of the twenty-first century, has transformed how violence is realised, and demands a reworking of the concept, one that no longer posits humans as separate from nature.Tyner shows that the existential crises that confront humanity in the Anthropocene have ruptured the comfortable belief of a collective afterlif