"The Abolition of Man is a thorough test drive of AI image making,
and the results are extraordinary, appalling, compelling, cold,
hot, beautiful, repellant, and should be abolished." — Dave
McKean, Prompt, Sandman, Cages  "Chilling. Exciting.
Bizarre." — Jim Rugg, Cartoonist Kayfabe, Street Angel, Hulk:
Grand Design  "The Abolition Of Man is a curiously uneasy
experiment. One that almost seems as if the construction of it is
trying to discover why it should exist. That alone is worth the
time to explore it." — J H Williams III (Echolands, The Sandman
Overture, Batwoman, Promethea) Â Don't miss out on one of the
most innovative graphic novels of the decade. Â Conceived of
and executed by fine-artist/educator/philosopher turned Eisner
Award nominated cartoonist, Carson Grubaugh, The Abolition of Man
Deluxe Edition collects all five issues of the groundbreaking
series of the same name, the first comic series in history to be
entirely illustrated by an Artificial Intelligence. Â In a
series of four interwoven experiments, Grubaugh used Midjourney AI
to interpret an essay by renowned thinker, C.S.Lewis, imagine a
satirical dystopian future, illustrate an AI generated script, and
finally, to produce graphics for an essay provided by Oxford
Philosopher of Information and AI & Data Ethics policy advisor
to the EU, UK, Google, etc., Luciano Floridi. All of these strands,
alternately hilarious and terrifying, weave together to give a
chilling peek into the world of the future, where humans and their
most treasured passions have lost all purpose. Â This deluxe
hardcover edition contains loads of exclusive content, including a
reprint of the extremely rare Dall-E 2 variant edition of The
Abolition of Man #1, in which the entire interior of issue #1 was
re-illustrated using Dall-E 2. The collection also includes two
pieces of philosophical writing produced by Grubaugh between 2007
and 2018 that were the source of inspiration for this project.
These essays included predictions about the banal, content
apocalypse AI is now making a reality. Â Also accompanying
the Abolition of Man project are a series of long-form discussions
about the ethics and impact of AI art with superstar guests Dave
McKean (illustrator), NFN Kalyan (fine artist), John Mahoney
(concept designer, filmmaker) and Luciano Floridi (Philosopher of
Information, Data and AI Ethics policy maker). These are posted to
Living The Line's YouTube channel and linked in the book. Â
This singular project will hold an important place not only in the
history of comics but in the history of art as it is the first of
its kind to engage with the most important moment in the history of
art since some wasteful cave-person blew juice at their hand on a
wall instead of drinking it.Â
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