CNR 2014: Lectures: Louis Armand (AUS): MIND FUCKS: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE & ROBOT EVOLUTION

Louis Armand directs the Centre for Critical & Cultural Theory in the Philosophy Faculty of Charles University, Prague. He has edited Contemporary Poetics (Northwestern, 2006), Avant-Post: The Avant-Garde under 'Post-' Conditions (LPB, 2006) and Hidden Agendas: Unreported Poetics (2010).

He is the author of Literate Technologies: Language, Cognition, Technicity (2006) and Event States: Discourse, Time, Mediality. Armand is the author of seven collections of poetry and five novels, most recently Breakfast at Midnight (2012) and Canicule (2013), both from Equus (London).

His work has been included in the Penguin Anthology of Australian Poetry and Best Australian Poems and a screenplay, Clair Obscur, received honourable mention at the 2009 Alpe Adria Trieste International Film Festival. He edits VLAK magazine.

Mind Fucks: Artificial Intelligence & Robot Evolution
The coming of "future man" - from Meyrink's Golem & Fritz Lang's Metropolis to Megumi Igarashi's 3D-printed vagina.

The ancient dream of a detachable autonomous ego capable of imbuing inorganic matter with the characteristics of intelligence or intelligent design has always been accompanied by the seemingly contrary fantasy of the rise of the bionic genital: transcendent thought and the transcendence of thought in the mechanisms of desire and self-propagation.

From the very beginning the concept of "mind" has evoked visions of bondage and ideas of subjectification. The procedural logics of rationalism are like ritually entrained fetish scenarios: bodies as virtual hardware, stripped-out and hacked back into the collective gender cortex.

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[image source: Megumi Igarashi, Louis Armand]
[source: Vive Les Robots!]

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Louis Armand

Louis Armand directs the Centre for Critical & Cultural Theory in the Philosophy Faculty of Charles University, Prague.

Mind Fucks: Artificial Intelligence & Robot Evolution
Louis Armand will presents his lecture "Mind Fucks: Artificial Intelligence & Robot Evolution" at Cafe Neu Romance on the 28 November 2014 at the Balling Hall of NTK.

Balling Hall, NTK
Technická 6
16080 Prague.