The Psychoanalysis of Artificial Intelligence (The Palgrave Lacan Series)

Millar, Isabel

ISBN 10: 3030679802 / ISBN 13: 9783030679804

Published by Palgrave Macmillan (edition 1st ed. 2021), 2021

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Psychoanalysis of Artificial Intelligence (The Palgrave Lacan Series)
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan (edition 1st ed. 2021)
• Publication Date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3030679802
• ISBN 13: 9783030679804
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st ed. 2021.
• Condition: Very Good

About this title

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. 

About the Author

Isabel Millar is a philosopher and psychoanalytic theorist. She is currently Research Fellow at the Centre for Critical Thought, University of Kent, UK.