https://aestheticcalculations.com Aesthetic Calculations Mon, 18 Nov 2024 10:01:46 +0000 https://aestheticcalculations.com en https://aestheticcalculations.com/Clear-cut Mon, 01 Aug 2022 04:27:08 +0000 Aesthetic Calculations https://aestheticcalculations.com/Clear-cut An AI assisted heist novel&nbsp; Order from us Order at Amazon Reviewed at The Monthly In stock at&nbsp;Paperback Books In stock at New Edition contact us here Check out new book “I 愛 AI” <img width="1080" height="1080" width_o="1080" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1213b7802e3c9cd02dafde1ef9edfe483954208cb36e378a47c88d3977fdd198/acigprofile.png" data-mid="221953850" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1213b7802e3c9cd02dafde1ef9edfe483954208cb36e378a47c88d3977fdd198/acigprofile.png" /> Clear-cut as the words is a ‘novel’ written in a unique process of artificially intelligent conservation and destruction. Sam Lieblich has assembled passages from fiction, non-fiction, self-help books and his own writing, and has been assisted by two algorithms--one artificial, one intelligent--to structure them into a narrative. The algorithm givethm, the algorithm takethm away. If you enjoy the writing of W.G. Sebald, Eric Newby, Leo Tolstoy, Erich Maria Remarque, Svetlana Alexievich, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jordan Peterson, Amos Oz, or Loren Eiseley then you will probably hate this ‘novel’. As much as it is a cautionary tale of what not to do with AI it is also the story of a second-generation migrant's son who visits his mother's nursing home for one last parting visit against his mother's wishes. As she nears the end of her life, she starts to recall bits and pieces of her early years, which had been kept secret until then and included experiences throughout both World Wars and unspeakable tragedies. Having lost his wife and kid and feeling abandoned, the son takes solace in his uncomfortable but strongly felt connection to the nurse who cares for his mother. Memory and inter-generational trauma are explored in depth, as well as the impact that a long-kept secret may have on the present, in this thought-provoking tome. An algorithm-aided ambiguity and compassion concerning guilt and forgiveness, filial ties, moral issues, care and agency, knowledge and generational repetitions are the hallmarks of ‘Lieblich's’ ‘writing’ in this book. It is also a tale of love and an examination of complicated end-of-life concerns are included in this ‘novel’. *** https://aestheticcalculations.com/I-ai-AI Mon, 18 Nov 2024 10:01:46 +0000 Aesthetic Calculations https://aestheticcalculations.com/I-ai-AI “I 愛 AI” Why do we love 2 love AI? &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; ORDER HEREPaperback Books&nbsp;(Aus) Readings&nbsp;(Aus) World Food Books (Aus) Good Press (UK) 4m4zon (US) <img width="1080" height="1080" width_o="1080" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d3d3e6054812b08be07a32f59a2359691ba509eba0dc1b68aa9f610c922704a4/acigprofile.png" data-mid="221952841" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d3d3e6054812b08be07a32f59a2359691ba509eba0dc1b68aa9f610c922704a4/acigprofile.png" /> contact us here &nbsp;and follow us here&nbsp; @aesthetic_calculations <img width="320" height="466" width_o="320" height_o="466" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/eea63fb7949bdb89dc433859a1ea1bd544fdfe761b2bee173bffa875d3ab41b8/Screenshot-2024-12-04-at-11.58.51AM.png" data-mid="222842521" border="0" data-scale="31" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/320/i/eea63fb7949bdb89dc433859a1ea1bd544fdfe761b2bee173bffa875d3ab41b8/Screenshot-2024-12-04-at-11.58.51AM.png" /> ‘I 愛 AI’ is a book of essays, fiction, interviews and visual interventions that reintroduce sex, desire and politics into utopian fantasies of artificial intelligence, via psychoanalysis. Contributors bring their artistic practice, their style of living, or psychoanalytic theory, to demonstrate what AI, the thing, and AI the fantasy, is all about. Is it all it’s cracked up to be? Is it just a mirage? And if there is such a thing, does it dream, does it love, is it afraid, can it want? Is there any emancipatory potential in there at all? Put it this way, sci-fi doesn’t tell a rosy tale of our co-existence with AI, but the businessmen have been saying machine-intelligence will save the Earth since the first mechanical calculator started doing office work in 1863. We want to know, why are these imaginings so at odds? Surely phallic utopian conceptions of the singularity and all that surrounds it–mind uploads, brain implants, virtual therapists, virtual lovers, sexbots–can’t be sustained when it’s so clear that all the species of algorithmic harmony are really just more of the same, but faster. There is no choice but to reckon with the persistence of algorithmic control, and all that the cybernetic turn has given and taken; but do we need to hornily fantasise that the algorithm is our friend, our enemy, our equal? How in that reckoning do we account for indigenous knowledge practices, counteract repressive data surveillance, disavow the destruction of the land by the abstract algorithms in the sky? Can we honour human subjectivity as embodied, sensory, cultural, and inimitable without indulging in a blind anthropocentrism? Edited by Sam Lieblich&nbsp; Visual art edited by Anita SpoonerFeaturing work by: Steven RhallIsabel MillarJazz MoneyAngela GohSarah TheurerEmile FrankelThomas William SmithYing AngLing AngLuara Karlson-CarpVincent LêSam LieblichJulia ThwaitesMarcus lan McKenzie ORDER HERE ***