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Nonconscious: On the Affective Synching of Mind and Machine
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Abstract Growing numbers of nonhuman companions (smart objects, technical environments, sensor technologies used to augment the human body) are creating affective synching between human and nonhuman agency. Unlike the unconscious of psychoanalysis, this book argues, the resulting nonconscious is no longer co... view more
Growing numbers of nonhuman companions (smart objects, technical environments, sensor technologies used to augment the human body) are creating affective synching between human and nonhuman agency. Unlike the unconscious of psychoanalysis, this book argues, the resulting nonconscious is no longer coupled to a subject grounded in language, instead acting as an affective link between technical, mental, and physical processes. But how is this nonconscious to be understood? Is it something additional, a new zone intervening between the unconscious and consciousness? Or does it fundamentally call into question the distinction between the two?... view less
Keywords
digitalization; artificial intelligence; algorithm; new technology; man-machine system; consciousness; affectivity; psyche
Classification
Sociology of Science, Sociology of Technology, Research on Science and Technology
Document language
English
Publication Year
2022
Publisher
meson press
City
Lüneburg
Page/Pages
86 p.
ISBN
978-3-95796-205-8
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed