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Histories of Artificial Intelligence: A Genealogy of Power

 

Dr Sarah Dillon

Sarah Dillon is Reader in Literature and the Public Humanities in the Faculty of English (Professor from 1st October), and co-Principal Investigator of the Histories of AI Mellon Sawyer Seminar. She has authored Storylistening: Narrative Evidence and Public Reasoning (2021, with Claire Craig), Deconstruction, Feminism, Film (2018), and The Palimpsest: Literature, Criticism, Theory (2007), and edited AI Narratives: A History of Imaginative Thinking About Intelligent Machines (2020, co-ed), Maggie Gee: Critical Essays (2015, co-ed), and David Mitchell: Critical Essays (2011). She has also published the reports Portrayals and Perceptions of AI and Why They Matter, and AI and Gender.

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Jonathan Arac (via bell hooks, 1997)

‘The process of remembering can be a practice which “transforms history from a judgement on the past in the name of a present truth to a “counter-memory” that combats our current modes of truth and justice, helping us to understand and change the present by placing it in a new relation to the past.”’

Bauman, Legislators and Interpreters (via Wynter, 2003)

'Definitions of the intellectual are many and diverse. They have, however, one trait in common, which makes them also different from all other definitions: they are all self-definitions. Indeed, their authors are the members of the same rare species they attempt to define...'

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