DeepAesthetics
by Anna Munster
About this book
"DeepAesthetics is a study of the aesthetics of machine learning and an account of the operations of AI and data science. Drawing on Deleuzian theory, Anna Munster thinks about how machine learning itself is a complex sociotechnical system-for example, she links anti-Black racism in AI to complex relations of statistical techniques derived from eugenics. Munster provides concepts and proposes an approach for probing experience reconfigured by machine learning. 'Deep aesthetics' characterizes AI as it is figured by statistical, platform, and quantifying tendencies, and draws on deep learning-the subfield of machine learning that uses neural network architectures. Situated across critical AI studies, software studies, science and technology studies, and art theory, the project of DeepAesthetics is to shift focus from quantifying computational 'experience' to how computation qualifies. DeepAesthetics offers a way to make sense of the insensible and frequently imperceptible forms of nonlinear and continuously modulating statistical function and calculation. Alighting on the domains and operations of image production; statistical racialization; AI conversational agents; and critical AI art, Munster analyzes how machine learning is operationally entangled with racialized, neurotypical, and cognitivist modes of producing knowledge and experience"--
- ISBN
- 9781478028338
- Publication date
- 2025
- Language
- en