Inventing Intelligence
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Inventing Intelligence

A Social History of Smart

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Inventing Intelligence

A Social History of Smart

About this book

What is intelligence? What makes humans Homo sapiens — the intelligent species? Inventing Intelligence is a bold deconstruction of the history of intelligence. Uncoupling our understanding of this most familiar concept from its traditional social science moorings, this book trains a cultural studies lens on intelligence to expose it as yet another form of representation.

Inventing Intelligence charts the history of intelligence from its earliest articulations through to postmodern AI. Individual chapters recount the loving spheres of divine intelligence imagined by Plato, the self-conscious stylings of the Renaissance Man, the politics of intelligence in the Enlightenment, as well as contemporary assessments of digital intelligence and the mysterious adventure of Einstein's brain. Ambitious in its historical sweep, unflinching in its challenge to conventional wisdom, Inventing Intelligence is for everyone and anyone who used to think that the parameters and the stakes of intelligence—evident in the current controversy over "intelligent" design—had been negotiated and finalized.

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Information

Publisher
Wiley-Blackwell
Year
2008
Print ISBN
9781405112161
eBook ISBN
9781405152303
Edition
1
Topic
Psychology
Subtopic
Personality in Psychology
Index
Psychology
ful 
institution 
that 
ultimately 
invented 
another 
kind 
of
intelligence: 
“We 
have
given
.
.
.
that 
they
.
.
.
enjoy 
mutual 
intelligence
and 
knowledge 
with
.
.
.
strangers 
and 
foreigners
.
.
.
without 
any 
molestation, 
interruption, 
or 
distur-
bance
.
.
.
provided 
[this 
be] 
in 
matters 
or 
things 
philosophical, 
mathematical 
and
mechanical” 
(ibid., 
p. 
105). 
This 
new 
intelligence, 
a 
metaphor 
for 
valuable 
and
privileged 
information, 
the 
information 
of
future 
national 
security 
agencies, 
is
produced 
by 
the 
intelligence 
of
human 
aptitude. 
This 
is 
an 
important 
moment
in 
the 
history 
of
intelligence 
because 
it 
unites 
the 
source 
and 
production 
of
intel-
ligence, 
privileging 
those 
whose 
superiority 
or 
ingenuity 
resulted 
in 
the 
produc-
tion 
of
valuable 
and 
frequently 
commercial 
knowledge. 
The 
Renaissance
economy 
was 
also 
the 
first 
to 
develop 
the 
capitalization 
of
both 
kinds 
of
intelligence.
Smart 
Renaissance 
Science
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  1. Inventing Intelligence: A Social History of Smart