Cultural Evolution and Its Discontents: Cognitive Overload, Parasitic Cultures, and the Humanistic Cure

ISBN-13: 9780367476564 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 318 str.

Robert N. Watson

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People worry that computers, robots, or Satan himself – brilliant ruthless creatures – may seize control and destroy what’s uniquely valuable about us. Cultural Evolution and its Discontents shows that our cultural systems are already doing that, and doing it so adeptly that we seldom even notice.

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Robert N. Watson (B.A. summa cum laude from Yale, Ph.D. in English with Highest Honors from Stanford) taught at Harvard before moving to UCLA, where he has been Chair of the Faculty of Letters and Science and Vice-Provost for Educational Innovation, and is now Distinguished Professor of English. He is the author of prize-winning scholarly books, and poems in the New Yorker and many other journals. He has been awarded Guggenheim and NEH fellowships, as well as visiting fellowships at Trinity College, Cambridge, and Christ Church College, Oxford, and prizes for excellence in teaching and public service.