This concern with the technological Singularity as some sort of onto-theological watershed moment is taken up by Žižek (2020) who remarks that, what the advocates of the Singularity often fail to realise, or at least fully engage with, is t…Whilst Žižek’s diagnosis of the problem with discourses on the Singularity is apposite, here my concern will not be to repeat the same gesture but rather to seek a constructive and productive way to engage with our relationship to AI psycho…Vinge, V. (1993) The Coming Technological Singularity: How to Survive in the Post-Human Era. Lewis Research Center, Vision 21: Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering in the Era of Cyberspace: pp. 11–22.
Žižek, S. (2020) Sex and the Fail…
Slavoj Žižek
philosopher · 5 mentions across 3 readings
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Žižek appears in the course as a critical voice diagnosing how technological utopianism—particularly around AI Singularity discourse—obscures the real ideological and psychoanalytic stakes of posthuman futures. The readings invoke his work to identify what advocates of the Singularity systematically fail to engage with, using his psychoanalytic framework to interrupt techno-optimist narratives and open space for a more rigorous, psychologically grounded analysis of human-AI relations.
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