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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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.
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Information
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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