{"product_id":"the-artifact","title":"The Artifact","description":"\u003cp\u003ehe only novel by famed Spanish author Germán Sierra available in English.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"In the clever [dis]guise of fiction, what The Artifact in fact foists upon its readers (hoisting us up in so doing so that ultimately we can look down on the whole situation from a higher perspective—albeit only to crash like a bluebird into the window through which we bear witness) is a veritable Germáneutic: an intriguing interpretation and lucid elucidation of what it is (and is not) to be human in the era of big data, of computation beyond the bounds of human intellection, and—spiralling-off from the latter—of intelligent machines (indeed ‘A.I.’) that can learn and discern far more than the human, perceiving—and who knows: conceiving?—in the vast void qua bind-spot of our own biological being.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Asterism","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54009847120148,"sku":null,"price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0781\/7327\/4388\/files\/1677360166-900.jpg?v=1789330449","url":"https:\/\/sheepcultcomics.shop\/products\/the-artifact","provider":"SHEEP CULT COMICS","version":"1.0","type":"link"}