CartAI And the Cybernetic Lifeworld Instructor: David Auerbach Date & Time: November 17th, December 1st, December 8th, December 15th. 09:00-11:30 ET
DESCRIPTION: This Seminar proposes that AI and networked technologies more generally are hastening the establishment of a new and greater form of Edmund Husserl’s Lifeworld (Lebenswelt) allowing for a radical reformulation of the “we-subjectivity.” Presently there is a pervasively false assumption that AIs are and will be discrete entities, when in truth the social revolution caused by AI is about the interweaving of computational and informational systems into existing forms of being.
Beginning with Husserl’s foundation of intersubjective historicity, this course will establish connections between its phenomenological method and its applications in science and technology, in particular Wilfrid Sellars’s naturalization of Husserl’s method and Norbert Wiener’s cybernetic theory and its offshoots. “AI” as traditionally conceived will be shown to be only the tip of the iceberg and perhaps the future peak of a mountain, an inseparable part of larger and increasingly incomprehensible systems that I have termed as Meganets. In this Seminar, we will explore the form and function of our new, supra-human lifeworld.
Contemporary practical readings will supplement the theoretical material below.
Session 1-The Lifeworld in Technology and AI: Edmund Husserl
Session 2-AI’s Doublet of the Manifest and Scientific Image: Wilfrid Sellars
Session 3-Cyber-historical Perspectives on AI: Norbert Wiener, Gian-Carlo Rota, Stanislaw Lem
Session 4-The New Rhizomatic Gemeinschaft: Future Directions”
Julie Mehretu, Black City, 2007
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