ANOTHER LOOK presents: Dino Buzzati’s The Singularity
Another Look has a special surprise in preparation for the discussion on Buzzati’s book The Singularity. In preparation for the event, Another Look director, Stanford Prof. Robert Pogue Harrison, interviewed Edwin Frank, director of New York Review Books and the founder of the NYRB Classics series.
The Singularity, originally published in 1960, probes some of the deeper human questions surrounding artificial intelligence. It was republished last year in a new translation by Anne Milano Appel for New York Review Books.
Will Dunn, writing in “The New Statesman,” called it “a stylish, compelling little mystery” that, although more than six decades old, “predicts … 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.”
Panelists will include Stanford Prof. Robert Pogue Harrison, author, director of Another Look, host of the radio talk show and podcast series “Entitled Opinions,” and a regular contributor to “The New York Review of Books,” and Stanford Prof. Tobias Wolff, one of America’s leading writers and the founding director of Another Look, as well as a recipient of the National Medal of Arts, as well as two guest panelists:
Stanford Associate Prof. Laura Wittman, a specialist in modern Italian literature and Bryan Cheong.
Bian Cheong 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. He works in the high-tech sector of Silicon Valley.
Registration for both zoom and in-person attendance is recommended.
The event is on Zoom and in person, at Levinthal Hall at the Stanford Humanities Center at 424 Santa Teresa Street.
Co-presented by the Italian Cultural Institute San Francisco.