Harmonious Coexistence Thanks to AI: Utopia or Heteronomy? A Convivialist Concept in THERESA HANNIG'S Pantopia (2022) Cover Image

Harmonisches Zusammenleben dank der KI: Utopie oder Fremdbestimmung? Ein konvivialistischer Entwurf in THERESA HANNIGS Pantopia (2022)
Harmonious Coexistence Thanks to AI: Utopia or Heteronomy? A Convivialist Concept in THERESA HANNIG'S Pantopia (2022)

Author(s): Carme Bescansa
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, German Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
Keywords: THERESA HANNIG; Conviviality; AI; Utopia; Pantopia

Summary/Abstract: THERESA HANNIG'S science fiction novel depicts people living together in peace in the future. This article examines whether and to what extent HANNIG'S literary concept is compatible with the postulates of conviviality. It also asks whether this model does not mean rejecting the hope that people are capable of voluntarily curbing their own impulses in favour of the common good. Can we only be saved by the intervention of an AI? To what extent is this AI not to be seen as part of the Dr Jekyll/Mr Hyde complex, of human duality? Where is responsibility located in this blurring of the subject-object boundary? How is freedom defined?

  • Issue Year: 2025
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 135-147
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: German
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