What is it about?
"Hypnocracy", published in 2025, is an international best-selling essay about digital manipulation and media, written by the Chinese philosopher Jianwei Xun. Yet, Jianwei Xun is not a real person but an AI. The paper discusses authorship and creative writing in the digital age through the lens of Daoist-Heideggerian philosophy.
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Why is it important?
After "Hypnocracy", for the first time in human history, Benjamin's "loss of aura" extends to creative writing.
Perspectives
Writing the article led me to realize how thin the boundaries are between the real and the virtual, the human and the machinic, and creation and assembly. And yet, not everything is lost.
Dr. Rudi Capra
Wuhan University
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This page is a summary of: Daoism, Heidegger, and AI: Reflections on Technology, Alienation, and the Case <i>Hypnocracy</i>, Filozofia, February 2026, Central Library of the Slovak Academy of Sciences,
DOI: 10.31577/filozofia.2026.81.1.7.
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