Pygmalion à l’ère de la virtualité
Apprendre avec la machine
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12030842 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jean-François Chassay (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1998 |
| Volume | 76 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 73-83 |
| Publication date | 1998-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Revue française d’études américaines (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0397-7870 • E-ISSN: 1776-3061 |
| Publisher | Éditions Belin (PUBLISHER • FR) |
| DOI | 10.3406/rfea.1998.1730 |
| OpenAlex | W2498671410 |
| Language | FR |
Galatea 2.2, Richard Powers' fifth novel, is a scientific fiction. Most of the action takes place in a computer laboratory where the protagonists, a computer scientist and a writer, are working together in order to perfect a computer with an immense knowledge of literature, and capable of analyzing literary texts. Powers updates one of the central myths of occidental literature : the creation of an artificial being, capable of thinking as a human being does, and arousing both hopes and fears in its observers. The novel ultimately questions the boundaries between what Charles Percy Snow has called the "two cultures" (i.e. science and the humanities)
Action (physics · Art · Humanities · Literature · Mythology · Order (exchange · Physics · Cultural Insights and Digital Impacts · Philosophy
| Highly cited | No |
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