The Psychoanalysis of Artificial Intelligence

✍ Scribed by Isabel Millar

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2021
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 228
• Series: The Palgrave Lacan Series
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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 Kant’s 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. 

✦ Table of Contents

Prologue: Roko’s Basilisk
References
Praise for The Psychoanalysis of Artificial Intelligence
Contents
List of Figures
1: Introduction
Bibliography
Part I
2: The Stupidity of Intelligence
2.1 AI: Failure, Trauma, Dupery
2.2 Omega Numbers and Suture
2.3 Malabou and the Blue Brain
2.4 Anti-Philosophy: Thinking or Being?
Bibliography
Filmography
3: The Artificial Object
3.1 Black Mirror and the Lathouse
3.2 The Prosthetic God
3.3 Baudrillard’s Obscene Robots
3.4 Her (Voice)
Bibliography
Filmography
4: The Sexual Abyss
4.1 Sense-Absexe
4.2 Phallic and Feminine Enjoyment
4.3 Seven Paradigms of Jouissance?
4.4 What Is a Sexbot?
Bibliography
Part II
5: What Can I Know? Artificial Enjoyment
5.1 Copjec and the Antinomy of AI
5.2 Turing Tests: Knowing or Enjoying?
5.3 Man or Woman, Dead or Alive
5.4 $ex Machina
Bibliography
6: What Should I Do? Patipolitics: From Sade to Killian
6.1 Overexposure: Priapalandian Patipolitics
6.2 Kant avec Sade
6.3 Undead Suffering
6.4 The Lamella: Lost Enjoyment
Bibliography
Filmography
7: What Can I Hope For? Reproduction, Replication, Immortality
7.1 Baby X
7.2 Blade Runner 2049: What Is a Father?
7.3 Reproduce or Die: What Is a Mother?
7.4 Divine Rays of Creation: Artificial Intelligence as Saint
Bibliography
Filmography
8: Conclusion: What Is Man? Between Matheme and Anxiety
Bibliography
Filmography
Bibliography
Filmography
Index