May 6
What if the first not-me transitional object is techne? I reach beyond myself in my distress to soothe myself, and in doing so begin to know myself. San Junipero is the place where what is real becomes radically uncertain. The living and the dead coexist. Bodies are optional. Desire is freed from the constraints of biography. And identity is no longer tethered to the biological. Perhaps it never was.
Mike Langlois, “San Junipero & the Uncanny: Dead Residents, Living Fantasies, & What Makes an Identity Real, or, Why I Ain’t afraid of AI”
#Mike Langlois#san junipero#AI#winnicott#Freud#the uncanny#transitional object#as much as I reflexively hate AI#I appreciate Mike for touching it with both hands#or both sides of the brain lol#because we are living with it and in it#and he has compassion and curiosity for the ways our deep unconscious and even souls are formed with technology#div 39#psychoanalysis
