Queer Reflections on AI

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Figures
Contributors
Preface
Introduction: Queer AI
	Queer technologies
	Artificial intelligence
		Bias
		Power
	Queering
	Conception
		Part I Genealogies
		Part II Materiality
		Part III Speculation
	Notes
	Bibliography
Part I: Genealogies
1. Queering intelligence: A theory of intelligence as performance and a critique of individual and artificial intelligence
	Introduction
	Intelligence as performance
		Cognition
		Performance
		Domains of intelligence
		Dimensions of intelligence
	Queering intelligence
		Queering as exploratory method
		Individual human intelligence
		Artificial intelligence
		Exploratory questions
	Re-imagining intelligence
	Bibliography
2. Neural \"freedoms\": Population, choice, and machine learning
	Neural \"freedom\"
	The question of population
	The neural network
	Markets
	Machines
	Entropy
	Our perceptual present
	Notes
	Bibliography
3. I spy, with my little AI: How queer bodies are made dirty for digital technologies to claim cleanness
	Detective AI
	Clean AI
	Queering AI
	Queering the node: The collective as the origin of information
	Leaning into fragmentation and omission
	Moving from fidelity to promiscuity
	Contaminatedly, yours—Or why this is a non-dictionary word that will still be used in this title
	Note
	Bibliography
Part II: Materialities
4. We\'re all cyborgs now?: Cripping the smart cyborg
	Harper
	Narrative prosthesis
	All cyborgs now?
	Contemporary feminist digital manifestos
	Data extractivism
	Denaturalisations
	John
	Notes
	Bibliography
5. Uncanny bodies: Queer subjects, artificial surrogates, and ambiguous robotics
	5.1 Queer subjects
	5.2 Artificial surrogates
	5.3 Ambiguous robotics
	5.4 Uncanny bodies
	Notes
	Bibliography
6. Patching and hoarding: Recodings of period tracking apps
	Digital afterlives of the medical plantation
	Black technical object and machinic non-existence
	Cring for conflict
	Patching or healing in difference
	Hoarding or inhabiting excess
	Notes
	Bibliography
Part III: Speculations
7. Wild Science/Fiction: Conscious AI as Queer Excess in VanderMeer\'s Annihilation
	Introduction
	Annihilation: Area X as a Wild Thing
	Wild Science/Fiction: Can Queer Machines Strike Back?
	Becoming Environmental and the Normativity of the Environmentalitarian Situation
	Conclusion
	Notes
	Bibliography
8. Innovation and iteration: Queer machines and the tension between manifesto and manifestor
	A rhetoric of promises
		Innovative forms and content
			Cybertwee Manifesto
			Manifesto for the Gynecene: Sketch of a New Geological Era
			Xenofeminist Manifesto: A Politics of Alienation
			Glitch Feminism: A Manifesto
		Critical claims
	A role of redoing
	A logic of contradiction
	Notes
	Bibliography
9. AI as medium and message: The (im)possibility of a queer response
	Introduction
	AI as medium: Taxonomy
	AI as medium: Labour
	AI as message and the attempt to refrain from responding
	Notes
	Bibliography
Conclusion
10. Inconclusion: Absent presences
	What AI does to queerness (and what queerness does to AI)
	Object choices
	Action choices
	Bibliography
Index