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 as a critical voice diagnosing the ideological blind spots in Singularity discourse, particularly the failure of AI advocates to grapple with what's actually at stake in the posthuman transition. The readings use his psychoanalytic framework to challenge techno-utopian narratives while positioning psychoanalysis itself as a necessary tool for understanding our psychological and social relationship to artificial intelligence. His intervention here models how continental philosophy can puncture the onto-theological pretensions of Silicon Valley futurism.
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