The psychoanalysis of artificial intelligence
This book examines the crucial role of psychoanalysis in understanding what AI means for us as speaking, sexed subjects. Drawing on Lacanian theory and recent clinical developments it explores what philosophy and critical theory of AI has hitherto neglected: enjoyment. Through the reconceptualization of Intelligence, the Artificial Object and the Sexual Abyss the book outlines the Sexbot as a figure who exists on the boundary of psychoanalysis and AI. Through this figure and the medium of film,…
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- Full title :The psychoanalysis of artificial intelligence / Isabel Millar.
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This book examines the crucial role of psychoanalysis in understanding what AI means for us as speaking, sexed subjects. Drawing on Lacanian theory and recent clinical developments it explores what philosophy and critical theory of AI has hitherto neglected: enjoyment. Through the reconceptualization of Intelligence, the Artificial Object and the Sexual Abyss the book outlines the Sexbot as a figure who exists on the boundary of psychoanalysis and AI. Through this figure and the medium of film, the author subverts Kants three Enlightenment questions and guides readers to transition from asking 'Does it think?' to 'Can it enjoy?' The book will appeal in particular to students and scholars of psychoanalysis, philosophy, film and media studies, critical theory, feminist theory and AI research. Isabel Millar is a philosopher and psychoanalytic theorist. She is currently Research Fellow at the Centre for Critical Thought, University of Kent, UK.
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- Publication Date:2021
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Palgrave Macmillan
- Place of Publication:Basingstoke
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2021
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- Description:1 online resource : : illustrations
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9783030679811, 3030679810
- DOI:10.1007/978-3-030-67981-1
- oclc:on1246672537
- LC Classification:Q334.7
- Dewey Decimal:006.3019
Table of Contents
1. Introduction -- Part I -- 2. The Stupidity of Intelligence -- 3. The Artificial Object -- 4. The Sexual Abyss -- Part II -- 5. What Can I Know? Artificial Enjoyment -- 6. What Should I Do? Patipolitics: From Sade to Killian -- 7. What Can I Hope For? Reproduction, Replication, Immortality -- 8. Conclusion: What Is Man? Between Matheme and Anxiety.
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