Rodkin, P. (2026). Posthumanistic Realism: Art and Artificial intelligence. Moscow: Sovpadenie. 320 p. (In Russ.) [Rod'kin, P. (2026). Postgumanisticheskij realizm: iskusstvo i iskusstvennyj intellekt. Moskva: Sovpadenie.].
The study critically analyzes the phenomenon of Artificial intelligence art and answers a number of fundamental questions that become relevant to the theory of art and design, as well as the cultural policy of the digital society of the 21st century. Artificial intelligence in art is seen as a fundamental challenge to the entire field of human creativity, which until now has been considered "insurmountable" for autonomous non-human actors. AI art is problematized in the context of the cultural situation of the posthumanist shift. In contrast to the mainstream position, AI art is defined as weak art.
Language: Russian
Design: Pavel Rodkin
Paperback: 320 pages
Size: 145x205 mm.
ISBN 9785903060234
© Rodkin, P., 2026
© Publishing house "Sovpadenie", 2026
Questions that need to be asked
The calculator is talking!
AI and displacement logic
Is AI art an Art form?
Hermeneutics of the non-human
The Posthumanist shift
The Dialectic of the impossible and the inevitable
Does everything solid dissolve in air, or not?
Modernity and the end of eternity
March of the Machines
Post-Capitalism and Imperium-Fetishism
The immanent impossible
The impossible and the inevitable
Art and the Multiple ontologies of Posthumanism
Post-post — meta-meta
Drawing duet
Non-humans and the theology of unfreedom
Animal art
OOO and posthumanistic realism
Autonomous metareality
OOO and the cosmology of the "Dark Forest"
Excommunication: become a black domain
Sadomasochistic capitalism
Criticism without self-criticism
Posthumanistic realism and objects
The problem of reflection and similarity
The Metaverse of Horror
Towards the theory of an unidentified object
Neural Zoo
The structure of a generative object
Algorithmic plateau
The right to antithesis
Weak art
King Lear's Lesson
However, who is there?!
Table Index
Bibliography
What does the rock art of primitive people tell us? That man is an artist by nature. And today, in the age of intelligent machines, art may remain the last refuge of humanity. The enlightened public is preoccupied with the question of what will happen to art if artificial intelligence replaces the artist? Pavel Rodkin is preoccupied with another question: what will become of the person himself in this case? This book is not just a vivid study of modern anthropotechnical processes, it is an overture to a requiem for a man who we may hear at our funeral and who will compose and play artificial intelligence, this last witness of man.
Vyacheslav Danilov
Pavel Rodkin's new book is unlike all previous ones. In it, the author reflects on the future of art in the context of posthumanism, in a situation that is just beginning and affecting the transformation of socio-cultural space and communications in it. The philosophical superstructures of "post" and "meta" do not provide clarity of understanding of what is happening, but only exacerbate the problems of producibility and reproducibility of art. Pavel Rodkin asks one of the main questions of our time. Is AI art an art? Should we, the audience and critics, consider it art?
Lubov Tsyganova
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