Gabriela Isaila | Ştiri

Vă invităm la prelegerea (susținută în limba engleză) a Iuliei Sushytska în data de 13 iunie, ora 17, sala Popovici!

Julia Sushytska: Resilient and Fragile: Becoming Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

A key danger to humans, but also other beings, including the earth, is Russia’s systematic destruction of the tissue that enables human beings to become human. This tissue is slowly weaved in spaces opened up by democratic institutions (such as the agora) and works of art (for instance, Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time). A Georgian philosopher Merab Mamardashvili (1930-1990) argued that one is not born, but becomes human by growing this tissue. A human is an artificial being—a result of intense labor supported by artifacts. Human artificiality, however, is quite different from the way in which artificial intelligence is understood today. I will discuss Mamardashvili’s unconventional interweaving of organic and inorganic terminology, as well as consider ways to resist misanthropic attitudes sustained by Russia. 

Julia Sushytska was born in L’viv, Ukraine and received her doctorate in philosophy from SUNY, Stony Brook. She is a Visiting Assistant Professor in Comparative Studies in Literature and Culture at Occidental College, Los Angeles. She co-translated and edited A Spy for an Unknown Country—a collection of essays by a Soviet-era Georgian philosopher, Merab Mamardashvili (Ibidem Press, 2020).