The Abnormal Mind in the Age of Machine Intelligence

What are the rights of the abnormal mind in the age of artificial intelligence? The course traces the genealogy of machinic intelligence (from early cybernetics to recent machine learning) and, in parallel, the history of the studies on psychopathology, madness and schizophrenia in post-WWII French philosophy. The genealogy of machine intelligence and “the history of madness” (Foucault) display continuous and mutual influences that are often forgotten. The course serves also as a basic introduction to key concepts of French philosophy and psychoanalysis (including Germany and Soviet neurology) and to authors such as Georges Canguilhem, Jacques Lacan, Gilbert Simondon, Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari.