Inventing Intelligence: A Social History of Smart

What is intelligence? What makes man homo sapiens - the intelligent species? This stimulating book addresses these questions, offering a bold deconstruction of the history of intelligence. It trains a cultural studies lens on intelligence to expose it as yet another form of representation. Privateer charts the history of intelligence from its earliest articulations through to postmodern Al. 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 mystery adventure of Einstein's brain.