Instructors John D. Caputo & Barry Taylor with a guest lecture on AI by Maxim Miroshnichenko, PhD

AI and Its Discontents

Discussion

The potentials and complications of AI have broken the surface of contemporary culture and there is scarcely a day when discussions and arguments AI, Chatbots, or some other form of digital development, aren’t raging somewhere in media.

This unique seminar will examine the impact and potential, both positive and negative, of digitality on philosophy, psychoanalysis and religion.

The course will begin with two lectures and discussion sessions from philosopher/theologian John D. Caputo on the Im/possibility of AI and then two follow-up lectures and discussions with Barry Taylor.

Schedule

Session 1 John Caputo lecture/discussion

Friday September 8 @7pm NDT (5:30 New York time)

Session 2 John Caputo lecture/discussion Saturday September 9 3:45pm NDT (2:15pm New York time)

Session 3 Barry Taylor lecture/discussion Sunday September 24 1pm (New York time)

Session 4 Barry Taylor and Maxim Miroshnichenko on Sunday October 1pm (New York time)

Assigned Books

Cyborg Selves: A Theological Anthropology of the Posthuman, Jeanine Thweat-Bates, Routledge, 2016

Does the Internet Have an Unconscious?: Slavoj Žižek and Digital Culture, Clint Burnham Bloomsbury Academic, 2019

The Psychoanalysis of Artificial Intelligence, Isabel Millar, Palgrave Macmillan, 2021

Narcissus in Bloom: An Alternative History of the Selfie, Matt Colquhoun, Repeater Books, 2023

What to Believe?: Twelve Brief Lessons in Radical Theology, John D Caputo, Columbia University Press (2023)

Format

Online via GCAS Zoom. All sessions will be recorded so you can participate in discussion if you miss a session.

Take this course for EU (ECTS) credit (3 ECTS) for $350. If you want to take this course for ECTS please write to: admissions@gcas.ie by 1 September