AI, accelerationism, and eroticism: An ethical-psychoanalytic reading through film
Her | Spike Jonze | 2013
Aldana Argüello Valenzuela, Rut Fidel

Universidad de Buenos Aires

Universidad de Mar del Plata

Abstract

The following article will analyze contemporary discourses arising from technological advances, using the 2026 AI Impact Summit in India as an example. It will attempt to establish a dialogue between Jacques Lacan’s (1954-1955, 1972) early reflections on cybernetics and current techno-political discourse. Furthermore, it will present some elaborations by contemporary psychoanalysts to consider the growing movement known as ‘accelerationism’ (Land, 2011), thus analyzing the implications of “knowledge without a subject” in the face of the rapid advancement of AI. Finally, it will offer a brief ethical-analytical reading of excerpts from the films Her (Jonze, 2013) and Companion (Hancock, 2025) in relation to topics such as cybernetics, eroticism, and the social bond. Thus, this recent technological advance does not constitute a historical break, but the culmination of a project integrated into the capitalist discourse with profound consequences for subjectivity.

Keywords: Artificial Intelligence | Accelerationism | Psychoanalysis | Cinema

This article is, for the time being, only available in Spanish: IA, aceleracionismo y erotismo. Una lectura ético-psicoanalítica a través del cine


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MARCH 2026
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