Belphégor (Jun 2024)

Écologie cybernétique : le retour de l’utopie ou une alternative possible ?

  • Ioanna Neophytou

DOI
https://doi.org/10.4000/11tfp
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 22

Abstract

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The aim of this article is to examine fictions surrounding AI, through utopian and dystopian representations produced in the field of visual arts. Starting with Stephan Degoutin and Gwenola Wagon’s film World Brain, the ethical, philosophical and political consequences of the application of artificial intelligence on several aspects of life will be studied. Furthermore, by drawing from the concept of cybernetic ecology introduced by the poet Richard Brautigan, the article seeks alternative practices and experiments that place nature, humans and AI in an egalitarian position. Through the work of the artist and writer James Bridle, AI will be contextualised within an ethic that is respectful of other-than-human intelligence forms, thus questioning the anthropocentrism of Western philosophy and history.

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