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Another Look: Dino Buzzati's The Singularity

Code:
EVT 630
Day:
Thursday
Date(s):
Apr 17
Time:
7:00 pm (PT)
Location:
Levinthal Hall, Stanford Humanities Center and Zoom
Cost:
FREE
Additional Info:
For questions, contact Cynthia Haven, clh@stanford.edu
Status: Get Tickets
The Singularity, originally published in 1960, probes some of the deeper human questions surounding artificial intelligence. It was republished last year in a new translation by Anne Milano Appel for New York Review Books.

Will Dunn, writing in The New Statesman, called it “a stylish, compelling little mystery” that, although more than six decades old, “predicts … with unsettling accuracy. Its characters are confronted by the presumptuous arrogance of men whose brilliance in engineering disguises how morally and emotionally incapable they are.”

Panelists will include:

Robert Pogue Harrison, Rosina Pierotti Professor of Italian Literature, Emeritus, Stanford; author; director of Another Look; host of the radio talk show and podcast series "Entitled Opinions" and a regular contributor to the New York Review of Books.

Tobias Wolff, Ward W. and Priscilla B. Woods Professor, Emeritus, Stanford; writer; the founding director of Another Look and recipient of the National Medal of Arts.

Laura Wittman, Associate Professor of French and Italian, Stanford

Bryan Cheong, Stanford alum

The event will be in-person and livestreamed over Zoom.

For questions, contact Cynthia Haven, clh@stanford.edu with https://anotherlook.stanford.edu/
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