Queer Reflections on Ai - Uncertain Intelligences

This volume offers a socio-technical exploration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the way it reflects and reproduces certain normative representations of gender and sexuality, to ultimately guide more diverse and radical discussions of life with digital technologies.

List of contents

Preface
Introduction: Queer(y)ing AI
Part I Genealogies
1. Queering intelligence: A theory of intelligence as performance and a critique of individual and artificial intelligence
2. Neural "freedoms": Population, choice, and machine learning
3. I spy with my little AI: How queer bodies are made dirty for digital technologies to claim cleanness
Part II Materialities
4. We‘re all cyborgs now? Cripping the smart cyborg
5. Uncanny bodies: Queer subjects, artificial surrogates, and ambiguous robotics
6. Patching & hoarding. Recodings of digital reproduction technologies
Part III Speculations
7. Wild Science/Fiction: Conscious AI as queer excess in VanderMeer’s Annihilation.
8. Innovation and iteration: Queer machines and the mension between manifesto and manifestor
9. AI as medium and message: The (im)possibility of a queer response
Conclusion
10. Inconclusion: Absent presences

About the author

Michael Klipphahn-Karge is an art historian at Technische Universität Dresden and Editor of the peer-reviewed online journal w/k Between Science and Art.
Ann-Kathrin Koster is a Research Associate at the Weizenbaum-Institute, Berlin.
Sara Morais dos Santos Bruss is a media theorist and curator at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin.

Summary

This volume offers a socio-technical exploration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the way it reflects and reproduces certain normative representations of gender and sexuality, to ultimately guide more diverse and radical discussions of life with digital technologies.

Product details

• Authors: Michael (Technische Universitat D Klipphahn-Karge
• Assisted by: Michael Klipphahn-Karge (Editor), Ann-Kathrin Koster (Editor), Sara Morais dos Santos Bruss (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.07.2023
• EAN: 9781032405216
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3240521-6
• No. of pages: 190
• Series: Routledge Studies in New Media and Cyberculture
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Media Studies, Sociology, Cultural Studies, Artificial Intelligence, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Gender studies, gender groups, COMPUTERS / Artificial Intelligence / General, Digital Animation, COMPUTERS / Design, Graphics & Media / Video & Animation