I 愛 AI

<p><strong>I 愛 AI</strong> is a book of essays fiction interviews and visual interventions that reintroduce sex desire and politics into utopian fantasies of artificial intelligence via psychoanalysis. Contributors bring their artistic practice their style of living or psychoanalytic theory to demonstrate what AI the thing and AI the fantasy is all about. Is it all it's cracked up to be? Is it just a mirage? And if there is such a thing does it dream does it love is it afraid can it want? Is there any emancipatory potential in there at all?</p><p></p><p>Put it this way sci-fi doesn't tell a rosy tale of our co-existence with AI but the businessmen have been saying machine-intelligence will save the Earth since the first mechanical calculator started doing office work in 1863. We want to know why are these imaginings so at odds? Surely phallic utopian conceptions of the singularity and all that surrounds it-mind uploads brain implants virtual therapists virtual lovers sexbots-can't be sustained when it's so clear that all the species of algorithmic harmony are really just more of the same but faster.</p><p></p><p>There is no choice but to reckon with the persistence of algorithmic control and all that the cybernetic turn has given and taken; but do we need to hornily fantasise that the algorithm is our friend our enemy our equal? How in that reckoning do we account for indigenous knowledge practices counteract repressive data surveillance disavow the destruction of the land by the abstract algorithms in the sky? Can we honour human subjectivity as embodied sensory cultural and inimitable without indulging in a blind anthropocentrism?</p><p></p><p><strong>Editor:</strong> </p><p>Sam Lieblich</p><p></p><p><strong>Visual Arts Editor:</strong> </p><p>Anita Spooner</p><p></p><p><strong>Designer:</strong> </p><p>James Vinciguerra</p><p></p><p><strong>Featuring work by:</strong></p><p>Steven Rhall</p><p>Isabel Millar</p><p>Jazz Money</p><p>Angela Goh</p><p>Sarah Theurer</p><p>Emile Frankel</p><p>Thomas William Smith</p><p>Ying Ang</p><p>Ling Ang</p><p>Luara Karlson-Carp</p><p>Vincent Lê</p><p>Sam Lieblich</p><p>Julia Thwaites</p><p>Marcus lan McKenzie</p>