Vachnadze, G. (2024) Christian Eschatology of Artificial Intelligence: Pastoral Technologies of Cybernetic Flesh. Berlin/Nicosia: Becoming Press. 978-9925-8118-8-5.
Christian Eschatology of Artificial Intelligence, written by Wittgenstein and Foucault scholar Giorgio Vachnadze, draws a circle around many topics that have been important to Becoming’s editorial line, from epistemology to cybernetics, biopolitics, philosophy of music and semiology.
The book traces multiple points of overlap between various regimes of truth from the Greco-Roman period through to the AI and cybernetic period, in order to present a continuity that ties together Christian Pastoralism and Neoliberal Self-Governance. The result is a fascinating and detailed examination of western hegemonial doctrines and signifiers: Logos, the Flesh, and the Fall.
Vachnadze leaves us with no conclusion besides a certain feeling in our stomachs, a feeling that often comes when someone makes you aware of something fascinating, but deeply unnerving. The author weaves scripture and theory together in a way which can be as exciting as conspiratorial fictions, and he does so without compromising the respectable position he has established at the point where non- meets sense.
CONTENTS:
Author’s Preface: How not to Read This Book
Introduction: Bio-Politics of Artificial Intelligence
Chapter One: Bionic Christ and the Diagram of the Flesh
Chapter Two: Music and the Poetics of Time
Chapter Three: The Incomputability of Computation
Chapter Four: The Silence of the Flesh
Chapter Five: My Mother is an AI
Chapter Six: The Heroic Tale of a Minority Machine
Non-Conclusion: AI Colonialism
BIO:
Giorgi Vachnadze is a Foucault and Wittgenstein scholar. He completed his Bachelor studies at New Mexico State University and received a Master’s qualification in philosophy at the University of Louvain. Former editor and peer-reviewer for the Graduate Student Journal of philosophy “The Apricot”, he has been published in multiple popular and academic journals world-wide. Vachnadze’s research focuses on philosophy of language and discourse analysis. Some of the questions and themes addressed in his work include: History of Combat Sports, Ancient Stoicism, Genealogies of Truth, Histories of Formal Systems, Genealogy of Science, Ethics in AI and Psychoanalysis, Media Archaeology, Game Studies and more.
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