Art and Psychoanalysis: Tensions and philosophical problems of Artificial Intelligence within late capitalism’s algorithmic phase. A critique from T.W. Adorno’s concept of identifying reason

Abstract

This article analyzes the relationship between aesthetics, Freudian psychoanalysis and artificial intelligence. Art as a paradoxical totality in which desire, fantasy and aesthetic sensitivity converge as an object of analysis, expresses in a peculiar way a set of different realizations of the experience of our species that is characterized by imagining models of sociability throughout history, whose emancipatory components bring art closer to the critique of culture, facing utopia through the prism of a non-identifying ratio from an Adornoian perspective. Faced with the question of whether artificial intelligence can overcome the determinations of desire and the unrepresentability of the unconscious, it is concluded that the tension between the demands of corporality and the social conflict that is condensed in the work of art, and the form of rationality in which the Sensitivity and the dynamics of drives as folds of specifically human sociability are still an opaque universe to the entirely instrumental logic with which algorithms operate.