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Deepaesthetics: Computational Experience in a Time of Machine Learning

Deepaesthetics: Computational Experience in a Time of Machine Learning

Munster, Anna

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Series: Thought in the ACT

PhilosophyTechnology & EngineeringGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 1478031549
ISBN13: 9781478031543
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: Apr 25 2025
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.74
Height: 0.63 Width: 5.91 Depth: 8.98
Language: English
Computation has now been reconfigured by machine learning: those technical processes and operations that yoke together statistics and computer science to create artificial intelligence (AI) by furnishing vast datasets to learn tasks and predict outcomes. In DeepAesthetics, Anna Munster examines the range of more-than-human experiences this transformation has engendered and considers how those experiences can be qualitative as well as quantitative. Drawing on process philosophy, Munster approaches computational experience through its relations and operations. She combines deep learning--the subfield of machine learning that uses neural network architectures--and aesthetics to offer a way to understand the insensible and frequently imperceptible forms of nonlinear and continuously modulating statistical function. Attending to 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. She approaches machine learning as events through which a different sensibility registers, one in which AI is populated by oddness, disjunctions, and surprises, and where artful engagement with machine learning fosters indeterminate futures.

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