Unconscious Networks - Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, and Artificial Intelligence

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.

List of contents

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

About the author

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).

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Luca M. Possati, Luca M. (University of Porto Possati
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.12.2022
• EAN: 9781032385518
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3238551-8
• No. of pages: 268
• Series: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Clinical medicine; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / General, Artificial Intelligence, PHILOSOPHY / Mind & Body, Philosophy of Mind, Human-Computer Interaction, Psychotherapy, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Human–computer interaction, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology), PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Psychoanalysis