This reading list is a guide, not an exhaustive inventory. The project of linking ethnology to AI is quite ancient, when “AI” referred to rhetorical and philosophical protocols designed to force thought to consider difficult propositions. We will concentrate on contemporary sources, however, beginning with Norbert Wiener’s classic introduction to cybernetics, the first appearance of the argument for machine-learning’s built-in entropy (implying that there must be, perforce, a built-in negative entropy, an “instrumental convergence”).
Clough, Patricia. The User Unconscious: On Affect, Media, and Measure. University of Minnesota, 2018.
Flieger, Jerry Aline. Is Œdipus Online? Siting Freud after Freud. MIT Press, 2005.
Nusselder, André. Interface Fantasy: A Lacanian Cyborg Ontology. MIT Press, 2009.
Wiener, Norbert. Cybernetics: Or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine. MIT Press, 2019 [1948].