This volume offers a socio-technical exploration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the way it reflects and reproduces certain normative representations of gender and sexuality, to ultimately guide more diverse and radical discussions of life with digital technologies.
Moving beyond the examination of empirical examples and technical solutions, the book approaches the relationship between queerness and AI from a theoretical perspective that posits queer theory as central to understanding AI differently. The chapters pose questions about the politics and ethics of machine embodiments and data imaginaries on the one hand, and about technical possibilities for a production of social identities characterised by shifting diversity and multiplicity on the other, as they are mediated by and through digital technologies.
Transgressing disciplinary boundaries to engage a diversity of conceptual tools, critical approaches, and theoretical traditions, this book will be an important resource for students and researchers of gender and sexuality, new media and digital cultures, cultural theory, art and visual culture, and AI.
Author(s): Michael Klipphahn-Karge, Ann-Kathrin Koster, Sara Morais dos Santos Bruss
Series: Routledge Studies in New Media and Cyberculture, 57
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2023
Language: English
Pages: 204
City: London
Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Figures
Contributors
Preface
Introduction: Queer AI
Queer technologies
Artificial intelligence
Bias
Power
Queering
Conception
Part I Genealogies
Part II Materiality
Part III Speculation
Notes
Bibliography
Part I: Genealogies
1. Queering intelligence: A theory of intelligence as performance and a critique of individual and artificial intelligence
Introduction
Intelligence as performance
Cognition
Performance
Domains of intelligence
Dimensions of intelligence
Queering intelligence
Queering as exploratory method
Individual human intelligence
Artificial intelligence
Exploratory questions
Re-imagining intelligence
Bibliography
2. Neural "freedoms": Population, choice, and machine learning
Neural "freedom"
The question of population
The neural network
Markets
Machines
Entropy
Our perceptual present
Notes
Bibliography
3. I spy, with my little AI: How queer bodies are made dirty for digital technologies to claim cleanness
Detective AI
Clean AI
Queering AI
Queering the node: The collective as the origin of information
Leaning into fragmentation and omission
Moving from fidelity to promiscuity
Contaminatedly, yours—Or why this is a non-dictionary word that will still be used in this title
Note
Bibliography
Part II: Materialities
4. We're all cyborgs now?: Cripping the smart cyborg
Harper
Narrative prosthesis
All cyborgs now?
Contemporary feminist digital manifestos
Data extractivism
Denaturalisations
John
Notes
Bibliography
5. Uncanny bodies: Queer subjects, artificial surrogates, and ambiguous robotics
5.1 Queer subjects
5.2 Artificial surrogates
5.3 Ambiguous robotics
5.4 Uncanny bodies
Notes
Bibliography
6. Patching and hoarding: Recodings of period tracking apps
Digital afterlives of the medical plantation
Black technical object and machinic non-existence
Cring for conflict
Patching or healing in difference
Hoarding or inhabiting excess
Notes
Bibliography
Part III: Speculations
7. Wild Science/Fiction: Conscious AI as Queer Excess in VanderMeer's Annihilation
Introduction
Annihilation: Area X as a Wild Thing
Wild Science/Fiction: Can Queer Machines Strike Back?
Becoming Environmental and the Normativity of the Environmentalitarian Situation
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
8. Innovation and iteration: Queer machines and the tension between manifesto and manifestor
A rhetoric of promises
Innovative forms and content
Cybertwee Manifesto
Manifesto for the Gynecene: Sketch of a New Geological Era
Xenofeminist Manifesto: A Politics of Alienation
Glitch Feminism: A Manifesto
Critical claims
A role of redoing
A logic of contradiction
Notes
Bibliography
9. AI as medium and message: The (im)possibility of a queer response
Introduction
AI as medium: Taxonomy
AI as medium: Labour
AI as message and the attempt to refrain from responding
Notes
Bibliography
Conclusion
10. Inconclusion: Absent presences
What AI does to queerness (and what queerness does to AI)
Object choices
Action choices
Bibliography
Index
