系列：社会和政治思想中的劳特利奇研究
这本书介绍了早期社会学家加布里埃尔·塔德的核心思想，并根据他的基础工作提出了社会学的新途径。塔德拒绝人类中心主义，强调了自然和人工之间的对比，独特地强调了人工在一个人们已经深深不信任它的时代的积极意义。在当代和古典学术背景下恢复塔德的理论，并认识到它如何与量子物理和数字媒体等现象相适应，这本书发展了宇宙学想象的概念，作为对技巧的批判性塔德分析的背景，可以将我们对当代面向未来的全球社会的了解结合起来。
我们如何认识宇宙，我们在宇宙中的位置，其他动物和物体在宇宙中的位置，我们的全球社会性，我们人类对宇宙中的权力和特权的主张，这些都是塔德提出的尖锐问题，他想知道，一个有利于不断的技巧的未来暂时性是否已经成为我们正常的人类生活方式。考虑到我们对现代产品和整体现代性的矛盾心理，我们对未来的思考，以及我们倾向于忘记大自然在呈现我们无法控制的问题时意味着什么，比如疾病和流行病，加布里埃尔·塔德（Gabriel Tarde）：人工智能的未来表明了为什么我们需要回到塔德的工作中，重新发现它与公众辩论的相关性，因为我们试图思考新时代及其文化和自然不再截然不同的社会。
这本书将吸引对我们的数字时代感兴趣的社会和政治理论学者、材料和对象的新社会学、新单子学和加布里埃尔·塔德的思想。
Gabriel Tarde: The Future of the Artificial
Series: Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought
This book presents the core ideas of early sociologist Gabriel Tarde and suggests a new pathway for sociology based on his foundational work. Rejecting anthropocentrism, Tarde highlights the contrast between the natural and the artificial, uniquely emphasizing the positive significance of the artificial in an age in which people have come to distrust it profoundly. Recovering Tarde’s theory today in the context of contemporary as well as classical scholarship and recognizing how it fits with such phenomena as quantum physics and digital media, this book develops the concept of the cosmological imagination as the context for a critical Tardian analysis of artifice that can bring together what we know about our contemporary future-oriented global societies.
How we know the universe, our place in it, the place of other animals and objects in it, our global socialities, our human claims of power and privilege within it, are pointed questions Tarde asks as he wonders whether a future temporality conducive to constant artifice has become our normal human way of life. Considering our ambivalence about modern products and modernity in general, our thinking about the future, and our tendency to forget what nature used to signify in its presentation of problems beyond our control, such as illnesses and epidemics, Gabriel Tarde: The Future of the Artificial demonstrates the reasons for which we need to return to Tarde’s work to rediscover its relevance for public debate as we seek to think through the new era and its societies in which culture and nature are no longer distinct.
This book will appeal to scholars of social and political theory with interests in our digital age, new sociologies of materials and objects, neomonadology, and the thought of Gabriel Tarde.
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