{"id":6083,"date":"2025-04-04T23:49:53","date_gmt":"2025-04-04T23:49:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anotherlook.stanford.edu\/?p=6083"},"modified":"2025-04-05T02:11:44","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T02:11:44","slug":"we-will-become-masters-of-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anotherlook.stanford.edu\/?p=6083","title":{"rendered":"“We will become masters of the world!”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Please join us at 7 P.M. (PST) on Thursday, April 17<\/strong>, when Another Look presents Dino Buzzati\u2019s<\/strong> 1960 The Singularity. <\/em>The hybrid event will take place in Levinthal Hall at the Stanford Humanities Center at 424 Santa Teresa Street on the Stanford campus.<\/p>\n\n\n

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The Singularity<\/a><\/em>, originally published in 1960, probes some of the deeper human questions surrounding artificial intelligence. It was republished last year in a new translation from the Italian by Anne Milano Appel<\/strong> for New York Review Books.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Will Dunn<\/strong>, writing in The New Statesman, <\/em>called it \u201ca stylish, compelling little mystery\u201d that, although more than six decades old, \u201cpredicts \u2026 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.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kevin Brockmeier, <\/strong>writing in Electric Literature, <\/em>called Buzzati “one of the great literary practitioners of the dark marvelous … one corner iin the triangle of indispensable twentieth-century Italian fantasists, along with Italo Calvino<\/a><\/span><\/strong> and Tommaso Landolfi.<\/strong>“<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Panelists will include Stanford Italian Prof. Robert Pogue Harrison<\/a><\/strong>, author, director of Another Look, host of the radio talk show and podcast series Entitled Opinions<\/em>, and a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books,<\/em> and Stanford Prof. Tobias Wolff<\/a><\/strong>, one of America\u2019s leading writers and the founding director of Another Look, as well as a recipient of the National Medal of Arts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We have two guest panelists as well:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stanford Associate Prof. Laura Wittman<\/a><\/strong>, is a specialist in modern Italian literature. Some of you will remember her from our 2018 event on William Henry Hudson\u2019s<\/strong> Green Mansions.
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Bryan Cheong<\/a><\/strong> received his Bachelor of Science from Stanford University with a degree in applied and computational mathematics before receiving a Masters in Materials Science, also from Stanford. For the past few years he’s been working in the high-tech sector of Silicon Valley.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Register for the event here:

https:\/\/stanford.zoom.us\/webinar\/register\/WN_3FhvEX50TvmwwLc_ou0uag<\/a><\/strong>

While walk-ins are always welcome, we encourage registration for both zoom and in-person attendance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kepler\u2019s in Menlo Park will be carrying the book for us \u2013 you get a 15% discount at the register.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Buzzati was also a painter and journalist.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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