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The Algorithmic Unconscious

Author : Luca M. Possati
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000345351
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book The Algorithmic Unconscious written by Luca M. Possati and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-02-25 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book applies the concepts and methods of psychoanalysis to the study of artificial intelligence (AI) and human–AI interaction. It develops a new, more fruitful approach for applying psychoanalysis to AI and machine behavior. It appeals to a broad range of scholars: philosophers working on psychoanalysis, technology, AI ethics, and cognitive sciences, psychoanalysts, psychologists, and computer scientists. The book is divided into four parts. The first part (Chapter 1) analyzes the concept of "machine behavior." The second part (Chapter 2) develops a reinterpretation of some fundamental Freudian and Lacanian concepts through Bruno Latour’s actor-network theory. The third part (Chapters 3 and 4) focuses on the nature and structure of the algorithmic unconscious. The author claims that the unconscious roots of AI lie in a form of projective identification, i.e., an emotional and imaginative exchange between humans and machines. In the fourth part of the book (Chapter 5), the author advances the thesis that neuropsychoanalysis and the affective neurosciences can provide a new paradigm for research on artificial general intelligence. The Algorithmic Unconscious explores a completely new approach to AI, which can also be defined as a form of "therapy." Analyzing the projective identification processes that take place in groups of professional programmers and designers, as well as the "hidden" features of AI (errors, noise information, biases, etc.), represents an important tool to enable a healthy and positive relationship between humans and AI. Psychoanalysis is used as a critical space for reflection, innovation, and progress.

Unconscious Networks

Author : Luca M. Possati
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000806073
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Unconscious Networks written by Luca M. Possati and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-12-09 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. How can we communicate with AI to determine shared values and objectives? And what, ultimately, do we want from machines? These are crucial questions in our world, where the influence of AI-based technologies is rapidly growing. Unconscious dynamics influence AI and digital technology and understanding them is essential to better controlling AI systems. This book’s unique methodology— which combines psychoanalysis, biosemiotics, and actor-network theory—reveals a radical reformulation of the problem of the human mind. Technoanalysis views the mind as a hybrid network of humans and nonhuman actants in constant interaction with one another. The author argues that human unconscious dynamics influence and shape technology, just as technology influences and shapes human unconscious dynamics. He proceeds to show how this conception of the relationship between the unconscious and technology can be applied to social robotics and AI. Unconscious Networks will appeal to scholars and advanced students interested in philosophy of technology, philosophy of artificial intelligence, psychoanalysis, and science and technology studies.

Does the Internet Have an Unconscious?

Author : Clint Burnham
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501341316
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Does the Internet Have an Unconscious? written by Clint Burnham and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2018-05-31 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Does the Internet Have an Unconscious? is both an introduction to the work of Slavoj Žižek and an investigation into how his work can be used to think about the digital present. Clint Burnham uniquely combines the German idealism, Lacanian psychoanalysis, and Marxist materialism found in Žižek's thought to understand how the Internet, social and new media, and digital cultural forms work in our lives and how their failure to work structures our pathologies and fantasies. He suggests that our failure to properly understand the digital is due to our lack of recognition of its political, aesthetic, and psycho-sexual elements. Mixing autobiographical passages with critical analysis, Burnham situates a Žižekian theory of digital culture in the lived human body.

Unconscious Intelligence in Cybernetic Psychology

Author : Torben Hansen
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000930831
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Unconscious Intelligence in Cybernetic Psychology written by Torben Hansen and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-09-14 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: - The field of Cybernetics is emerging in a number of fields. - Offers insights into the applicability of Cybernetic Psychology across different areas and contexts. - Will be of cross disciplinary interest, including practitioners and scholars in Mental Health and Education.

Freudian Unconscious and Cognitive Neuroscience

Author : Vesa Talvitie
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429914032
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Freudian Unconscious and Cognitive Neuroscience written by Vesa Talvitie and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-05-08 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The aim of Freudian Unconscious and Cognitive Neuroscience is to create a conception of the Freudian things around the unconscious that takes seriously both the clinical data gathered in the scope of psychoanalytic clinical practice during the past 110 years, and the empirical and theoretical achievements of cognitive science and evolutionary theory. Tensions between the psychoanalytic and other views give a hint that the task is anything but easy.

Deleuze, Guattari and the Schizoanalysis of Postmedia

Author : Joff P. N. Bradley
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350180513
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Deleuze, Guattari and the Schizoanalysis of Postmedia written by Joff P. N. Bradley and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-01-12 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is the self or subject discontinuous across technological platforms? Do technological developments increase inequality and exploitation? Is the new media landscape creating a dangerous distraction from the climate crisis? Connecting the work of critical postmedia studies to Deleuze and Guattari's concept of schizoanalysis, this book marks a bifurcatory shift in the radical theory on technology. A range of critical perspectives are explored by international authors who engage with ecology, ecosophy, climate change, the postmedia condition, and the Anthropocene. Answering the above questions, editors Joff P.N. Bradley, Alex Taek-Gwang Lee, and Manoj N.Y. frame the volume's chapters as urgent responses to unbridled technological advance and impending climate disaster. Using ecological philosophy as a core focus, the volume analyses new media, technologies of the self, the power of algorithms, and technologies of resistance, to outline a materialist paradigm capable of addressing crises across the cultural, biological, and informational spheres. Through contesting economies built on desire and destruction and questioning the infiltration of capitalism in all of its spheres of negative influence, the editors review recent technological developments in light of Deleuze and Guattari's earlier seminal theories to make bold new connections and critiques in the study of media, philosophy, and the environment.

The Unconscious Domain

Author : Henry Kellerman
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030350096
Total Pages : 135 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book The Unconscious Domain written by Henry Kellerman and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-02-01 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book enumerates the components of the unconscious domain (or realm), and attempts to uncover the proposed communicational network of its operation — a communicational network that is able to link inherent participating components of this realm. It is often the case that theoreticians and clinical practitioners refer to the unconscious or unconscious material in a way that implies the sense of it all rather than a specific definition, broadly describing it as “material which is out of one’s awareness.” This volume therefore examines the complex existence of the entire unconscious realm embraced in an evolutionary historical context, defined here as the 'unconscious domain'.

Benumof's Airway Management

Author : Carin A. Hagberg
Publisher : Elsevier Health Sciences
ISBN 13 : 0323070175
Total Pages : 1340 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Benumof's Airway Management written by Carin A. Hagberg and published by Elsevier Health Sciences. This book was released on 2007-02-23 with total page 1340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Airway Management is one of the fundamental fields of knowledge that every resident, anesthesiologist and Nurse Anesthetist must master to successfully manage surgical patients. The new edition of this highly successful text has a new editor and increased coverage of pre- and post-intubation techniques. Fully illustrated and tightly focused, this unique text is the only volume of its kind completely dedicated to airway management. Complete with the latest ASA guidelines, no other volume does what Benumof's Airway Management does. This is the definitive reference on airway management and it belongs on your shelf. Offers a how-to approach to airway management. Includes case examples and analysis. Highly illustrated format provides clarity on complex procedures. A new editor and 50% new contributors bring you the latest research and practice guidelines. Over two hundred new illustrations highlight complex procedures and monitoring techniques with greater clarity. The latest ASA Guidelines make you aware of exactly what procedures are required in difficult cases. Increased complete coverage of pre- and post-intubation techniques takes you from equipment selection through management of complications.

Hypnosis

Author : Bhupendra Maganlal Palan
Publisher : Concept Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9788180697272
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (972 download)

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Download or read book Hypnosis written by Bhupendra Maganlal Palan and published by Concept Publishing Company. This book was released on 2011 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Papers presented at the National Conference on Hypnotherapy : the Therapy of New Millennium, held at Vadodara during 9-11 January 2009.

On the Politics of Kinship

Author : Hannes Charen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000550206
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book On the Politics of Kinship written by Hannes Charen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-03-15 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Hannes Charen presents an alternative examination of kinship structures in political theory. Employing a radically transdisciplinary approach, On the Politics of Kinship is structured in a series of six theoretical vignettes or frames. Each chapter frames a figure, aspect, or relational context of the family or kinship. Some chapters are focused on a critique of the family as a state-sanctioned institution, while others cautiously attempt to recast kinship in a way to reimagine mutual obligation through the generation of kinship practices understood as a perpetually evolving set of relational responses to finitude. In doing so, Charen considers the ways in which kinship is a plastic social response to embodied exposure, both concealed and made more evident in the bloated, feeble, and broken individualities and nationalities that seem to dominate our social and political landscape today. On the Politics of Kinship will be of interest to political theorists, feminists, anthropologists, and social scientists in general.

War and Algorithm

Author : Max Liljefors
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1786613662
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (866 download)

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Download or read book War and Algorithm written by Max Liljefors and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-10-11 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book looks at the changing forms of violence and likely consequences of a fully digitalized world.

Software as Hermeneutics

Author : Luca M. Possati
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030636100
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Software as Hermeneutics written by Luca M. Possati and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-06-24 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book claims that continental philosophy gives us a new understanding of digital technology, and software in particular; its main thesis being that software is like a text, so it involves a hermeneutic process. A hermeneutic understanding of software allows us to explain those aspects of software that escape a strictly technical definition, such as the relationship with the user, the human being, and the social and cultural transformations that software produces. The starting point of the book is the fracture between living experience and the code. In the first chapter, the author argues that the code is the origin of the digital experience, while remaining hidden, invisible. The second chapter explores how the software can be seen as a text in Ricoeur’s sense. Before being an algorithm, code or problem solving, software is an act of interpretation. The third chapter connects software to the history of writing, following Kittler’s suggestions. The fourth chapter unifies the two parts of the book, the historical and the theoretical, from a Kantian perspective. The central thesis is that software is a form of reflective judgment, namely, digital reflective judgement.

Big Data's Threat to Liberty

Author : Henrik Skaug Saetra
Publisher : Academic Press
ISBN 13 : 0128238070
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (282 download)

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Download or read book Big Data's Threat to Liberty written by Henrik Skaug Saetra and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2021-08-04 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Big Data permeates all aspects of modern life, and while there is no shortage of potential benefits resulting from this, author Henrik Skaug Sætra argues that we must also understand the threats Big Data poses to liberty. The issues discussed in Big Data’s Threat to Liberty: Surveillance, Nudging, and the Curation of Information are related to how we are constantly under surveillance. Data is gathered from our homes, our cars, our smartphones, various devices around the house, and public sources such as facial recognition enabled camera surveillance and various websites and social networks. Furthermore, the information gathered is used to influence our actions. Detailed personality profiles are utilized in order to make us purchase products and services, or pay our taxes, through tailor-made nudges aimed at irrational and subconscious mechanisms, and delivered with a level of precision only possible with Big Data-driven algorithmic curation of data. Finally, the information we receive through various media is curated by algorithms, and even people are curated in order to satisfy our desires. By providing us with what the algorithm believes we want, we are spared from the exposure of unpleasant information, and even unpleasant people. The ideological landscapes we traverse are thus characterized by conformity, and a concomitant tyranny of popular opinion becomes ever more coercive as this occurs. The question is: How does being constantly watched, manipulated, and having our world-views shaped as just described affect our freedom? In this book it is argued that Big Data’s threat to individual liberty is routinely misunderstood and underappreciated due to (a) vagueness resulting from the concept of liberty being used without it being defined, or (b) the use of definitions based on flawed understandings of what liberty is. In this new and unique contribution to the ethics of Big Data and artificial intelligence, both these challenges are thoroughly addressed. Explanation of key Big Data–related technologies and how they affect modern society, including explanation of surveillance technologies and nudging algorithms, and how Big Data, Machine Learning, and Artificial Intelligence algorithms are used to tailor and mold opinion Conceptualization of the term liberty, making the concept tangible, as a clear understanding of various forms of liberty enables a proper debate about the effects of technology on liberty, and a debate about what sort of liberty we value A thorough technical explanation of how Big Data influences individuals by way of surveillance that allows for detailed personality profiles, nudging, and the algorithmic curation of information

Psychoanalysis of Evil

Author : Henry Kellerman
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319073923
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Psychoanalysis of Evil written by Henry Kellerman and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-07-28 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For all our knowledge of psychopathology and sociopathology--and despite endless examinations of abuse and torture, mass murder and genocide--we still don't have a real handle on why evil exists, where it derives from, or why it is so ubiquitous. A compelling synthesis of diverse schools of thought, Psychoanalysis of Evil identifies the mental infrastructure of evil and deciphers its path from vile intent to malignant deeds. Evil is defined as manufactured in the psyche: the acting out of repressed wishes stemming from a toxic mix of harmful early experiences such as abuse and neglect, profound anger, negative personality factors, and mechanisms such as projection. This analysis brings startling clarity to seemingly familiar territory, that is, persons and events widely perceived as evil. Strongly implied in this far-reaching understanding is a call for more accurate forms of intervention and prevention as the author: Reviews representations of evil from theological, philosophical, and psychoanalytic sources. Locates the construction of evil in psychodynamic aspects of the psyche. Translates vague abstractions of evil into recognizable concepts. Exemplifies this theory with the lives and atrocities of Hitler and Stalin. Applies psychoanalytic perspective to the genocides in Turkey, Pakistan, Cambodia, and Rwanda. Revisits Hannah Arendt's concept of "the banality of evil." Psychoanalysis of Evil holds a unique position in the literature and will gather considerable interest among readers in social psychology, psychoanalysis, sociology, and political anthropology. Historians of mass conflict should find it instructive as well.

Critical Essays on Bernard Stiegler

Author : Joff P. N. Bradley
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 152759212X
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)

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Download or read book Critical Essays on Bernard Stiegler written by Joff P. N. Bradley and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2024-04-22 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past decade, Joff P. N. Bradley has carefully considered Bernard Stiegler’s influence on political philosophy, technology, and the philosophy of education. Driven by the belief that across various humanities subjects Stiegler’s nuanced philosophy will emerge as a dominant force in the coming decades, this compendium offers a comprehensive examination of Stiegler’s ideas and their impact on contemporary thought. Immerse yourself in this insightful exploration of Stiegler’s enduring intellectual legacy.

The Feminine Subject in Children's Literature

Author : Christine Wilkie-Stibbs
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136699929
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (366 download)

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Download or read book The Feminine Subject in Children's Literature written by Christine Wilkie-Stibbs and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-16 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book builds upon and contributes to the growing academic interest in feminism within the field of children's literature studies. Christie Wilkie-Stibbs draws upon the work of Luce Irigaray, Helene Cixous, Julia Kristeva, and Jacques Lacan in her analysis of particular children's literature texts to demonstrate how a feminist analysis opens up textual possibilities that may be applied to works of children's fiction in general, extending the range of textual engagements in children's literature through the application of a new poststructural critical apparati.

Proto-Algorithmic War

Author : Stefka Hristova
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031042190
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Proto-Algorithmic War written by Stefka Hristova and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-07-16 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Iraq War, American soldiers were sent to both fight an enemy and to recover a “failed state” in pixelated camouflage uniforms, accompanied by robots, and armed with satellite maps and biometric hand-held scanners. The Iraq War, however, was no digital game: massive-scale physical death and destruction counter the vision of a clean replayable war. The military policy of the United States, and not the actual experience of war, has been rooted in the logic of digital, and nascent algorithmic technology. This logic attempted to reduce culture, society, as well as the physical body and environment into visual data that lacks cultural and historical context. This book details the emergence of a nascent algorithmic war culture in the context of the Iraq War (2003-2010) in relation to the data-driven early 20th century British Mandate for Iraq. Through a series of five inquiries into the ways in which the Iraq War attempted to and often failed to see population and territory as digital and further proto-algorithmic entities, it offers an insight into the digitization and further unmanned automaton of war. It does so through a comparative historical framework reaching back to the quantification techniques harnessed during the British Mandate for Iraq (1918-1932) in order to explicate the parallels and complicated the diversions between the numerical logics that have driven both military state-building enterprises.