THE PALGRAVE LACAN SERIES
SERIES EDITORS: CALUM NEILL · DEREK HOOK
The Psychoanalysis of Artificial Intelligence
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macmillan
The Palgrave Lacan Series
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Calum Neill
Edinburgh Napier Un…Auerbach, D (2014) The Most Terrifying Thought Experiment of All Time. Available (01.03.2020) at: https://slate.com/technology/2014/07/rokos-basilisk-the-most-terrifying-thought-experimentof-all-time.html
Lacan, J. (2006a) ‘Logical Time and…“Boldly drawing on a vast range of academic disciplines orchestrated by an enviable psychoanalytic erudition and an original treatment of so-called “sexbots” as a central object for contemporary speculative and social investigation, Millar’…
Isabel Millar
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Isabel Millar appears as the author of a book-length psychoanalytic study of artificial intelligence that draws on Lacanian theory to examine AI through the lens of sexuality and desire, particularly via the figure of "sexbots" as a site of contemporary social and technological anxiety. Her work uses psychoanalytic frameworks to interrogate how AI and automation reshape human subjectivity and social relations, making her relevant to the seminar's interest in the cultural and psychological dimensions of machine intelligence beyond purely technical concerns. The excerpts suggest she bridges psychoanalytic theory and AI criticism in ways that complement the course's engagement with how cybernetic systems intersect with desire, fantasy, and the unconscious dimensions of technological culture.
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