Dr. Isabel Millar on AI and Sexbots

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Dr. Isabel Millar on AI and Sexbots

What is a sexbot? Are sexuality and class related? and was Kant horny...? 🍆We asked everything you always wanted to know about sexbots but were too repressed to ask Lacanian psychoanalyst, cultural theorist, and activist Isabel Millar, to talk about the psychoanalysis of AI, Priapalandia (the fictional land of uninhibited enjoyment), Kant and Sade, the ethics of psychoanalysis, Lotringer, Preciado, Baudrillard, Ghost in the Shell, the relationship between sexuality and class, and more.Dr. Millar is the author of The Psychoanalysis of Artificial Intelligence (2021) and has been described as "one of the country's leading young thinkers" (HowTheLightGetsIn Festival). "Patipolitics: The Philosophy of Sexual Suffering" is out now on Bloomsbury Press.0:00 Introduction1:02 How would you define a sexbot?3:48 What is "extimacy"?8:38 Ethics of psychoanalysis and sexbots13:08 What is Priapalandia?16:28 Was Kant horny?21:23 On Baudrillard26:05 Are you a posthumanist?28:56 Sylvère Lotringer's "Overexposed"32:35 Ghost in the Shell, using film for philosophy36:05 Philosophy as unconscious autobiography39:00 Paul B. Preciado's "Can the Monster Speak?"44:25 Adorno's Table and gentrification50:32 Does class influence sexual behaviours and beliefs?56:30 What is sex?https://www.bansex.now/