Description:
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.
Review Quotes:
"Unconscious Networks is an ambitious and original contribution to both psychoanalysis and (philosophy of) artificial intelligence. Possati argues that we should return to a Freud initial view that psychoanalysis is part of the natural sciences. This is an original move and not only throws an interesting light on a somewhat forgotten (or surpressed) dimension of psychoanalysis, but it also enables Possati to establish a different connection between psychoanalysis and AI, especially by using Deacon as a biosemiotics link between those two domains. I expect Unconscious Networks will also receive praise because of its innovative new approach to the connection of psychoanalysis and AI, both from the domain of psychoanalysis and of AI research."
Jos de Mul, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands