Unconscious Networks

This book develops an original theoretical framework for understanding human-technology relations. The author's approach, which he calls technoanalysis, analyzes artificial intelligence based on Freudian psychoanalysis, biosemiotics, and Latour's actor-network theory.

Autorentext

Luca M. Possati is researcher and lecturer at the Institute of Philosophy, University of Porto, Portugal. He is the author of many books, including Software as Hermeneutics: A Philosophical and Historical Study (2022) and The Algorithmic Unconscious: How Psychoanalysis Helps in Understanding AI (Routledge, 2021).

Inhalt

Introduction

Overture

1. To Take Freud Seriously: Psychoanalysis as Natural Science

2. Reassembling the Mind: Psychoanalysis and Actor-Network Theory

3. Mediation and Anti-Mediation: Google Glass, the Metaverse, and Social Robotics

4. Looking through Replika: How to Psychoanalyze an AI Chatbot

5. From Turing to Peirce: A Semiotic Re-Interpretation of Computation

6. AI, Psychoanalysis, and the Critique of Identity

7. Cybernetic Derrida: The Différance **and the Constitution of the Digital Object

Conclusions: A Planetary Negotiation