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New Arrival From Autonomy to Ambiguity: Reconfiguring the Legal Landscape in the Age of AI

From Autonomy to Ambiguity: Reconfiguring the Legal Landscape in the Age of AI

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  • Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
  • ISBN: 9781800373907
  • Published In: February 2026
  • Format: Hardback
  • Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
    Countri(es) stated herein are used as reference only

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In this timely book, Bart van der Sloot explores how modern technologies such as artificial intelligence and data profiling are reshaping what it means to be human. Drawing on interdisciplinary insights, he examines how digital life intensifies long-standing tensions within the human condition.

Van der Sloot argues that existing legal frameworks, especially within privacy and data protection, are grounded in outdated assumptions about human rationality and control. Proposing innovative ways of thinking about identity, vulnerability, and regulation, he considers the complex and ambiguous reality of being human in a digital age. Chapters investigate how shame, memory, narrative, and performance shape identity formation, and explore concepts such as ‘data minimumization’, the right to fiction, and dual-track governance models. The author considers how both our fascination with technology and our desire to escape our limitations are deeply human traits, engaging with ancient and modern thought to question our increasingly intimate relationship with technology.

This book is an essential resource for students and scholars of digital humanities, human rights, information and media law, internet and technology law, and philosophy. It is also an enlightening read for legal professionals and policymakers involved in data protection, digital security, and privacy.

PART I SETTING THE STAGE
1.
The end of this book

PART II THE PERFECT IMPERFECTION OF IDENTITY CONSTRUCTION
2.
The call of the sirens
3.
Ashamed of being ashamed
4.
Playing ourselves
5.
Trauma, memory, identity
6.
Violence, narrative, motive
7.
Privacy and ambiguity

PART III THE PRESENTATION OF SELF IN EVERYDAY DIGITAL LIFE
8.
Stating the obvious
9.
Form and function of self-narration
10.
Friction and recognition
11.
Digital animism, or the Homo Economicus in an increasingly magical world 110
12.
Shameless guilt tripping
13.
Too much information

PART IV LAW IN QUEST OF ITSELF
14.
Right to ecology
15.
Right to porosity
16.
Right to contextuality
17.
Right to fiction
18.
Right to friction
19.
Right to dependency

PART V REFLECTIVE FORETHOUGHTS
20.
Fork in the road

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