Utopian Aspects of Vladimir Sharov's “Become Like Children”
The article analyses Vladimir Sharov's new novel in the context of literary traditions of utopia, dystopia, Lenin myth and antimyth, as well as against the background of the author's creative method.
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Semiotic representation of Minsk in Viktor Martinovich’s novel “Mova”
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Chelovek. Kul’tura. Obshchestvo: Tezisy dokladov I Mezhdunarodnoi nauchnoi konferentsii studentov i aspirantov
[Human. Culture. Society: Abstracts of the I International Scientific Conference of Students and Postgraduates]. Minsk, ...
Digital Technology: Reflections on the Difference between Instrumental Rationality and Practical Reason
Are computers on the way to acquiring “superintelligence”? Can human deliberation and decision-making be fully simulated by the mechanical execution of AI programmes? On close examination these expectations turn out not to be well-founded, since algorithms (or, in Kantian terms, “imperatives of skill” that are implemented by technological means) do, ultimately, have “heteronomous” characteristics. So-called AI-“autonomy” is a sensor-directed performance automatism, which — compared...