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Jacob Johanssen

@jacobjohanssen.bsky.social

Associate Prof at St Mary's University. I write about digital media and psychoanalysis. Don't use this account much. https://www.stmarys.ac.uk/staff-directory/jacob-johanssen

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Adam Rawnsley@arawnsley.bsky.social · 2d ago

Today, August 4, 2026, is the setting of Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” about a fully automated house continuing on after the family who lived there and the world around it died in a nuclear blast.

Dr Nini Kerr@ninikerr.bsky.social · 3mo ago

[Open Access] The work revisits #Fairbairn’s “object-seeking” via his life; offers a psychosocial critique of the tyranny embedded in everyday relations and institutions. It points toward radical marginality as a vital site for independent thinking and resistance www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The tyranny of relationality: Psychosocial implications of Ronald Fairbairn’s “object-seeking”

The paper revisits Fairbairn’s concept of “object-seeking”, situating it within the complex, often fraught relational dynamics between self and other in everyday life. Adopting a psychosocial lens,...

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Theory, Culture & Society@theoryculturesociety.org · 9mo ago

New as Online First: Jack Black and Jacob Johanssen, 'The Subject of AI: A Psychoanalytic Intervention' - explores psychoanalytic perspectives, particularly Lacanian theory, on artificial intelligence, with a focus on chatbots, such as, ChatGPT. (Open Access) journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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LLMs@llms.activitypub.awakari.com.ap.brid.gy · 9mo ago

Black, Jack & Johanssen, Jacob: The Subject of AI: A Psychoanalytic Intervention _Theory, Culture and Society_ (xx). 2025This article explores psychoanalytic perspectives, particularly Lacanian... Origin | Interest | Match

Jack Black & Jacob Johanssen, The Subject of AI: A Psychoanalytic Intervention - PhilArchive

This article explores psychoanalytic perspectives, particularly Lacanian theory, on artificial intelligence, with a focus on chatbots, such as, ChatGPT. While ChatGPT is often viewed as mimicking human traits, such conceptions overlook ...

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Roland Meyer@bildoperationen.bsky.social · 8mo ago

«ChatGPT told a young mother in Maine that she could talk to spirits in another dimension. It told an accountant in Manhattan that he was in a computer-simulated reality … It told a corporate recruiter in Toronto that he had invented a math formula that would break the internet …» #ParanoiaMachine

Kashmir Hill@kashhill.bsky.social · 9mo ago

For the last few months, we've been talking to current and former employees of OpenAI to understand what went wrong with ChatGPT this year and how the company is fixing it. Here's the story: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/t...

Jacob Johanssen@jacobjohanssen.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Our book Media and Psychoanalysis: A Critical Introduction has just been published in Persian! 🎉 Many thanks to Saeid Ghobadi for the translation: barkhatbook.com/product/bk_2...

کتاب رسانه و روانکاوی مقدمه‌ای انتقادی | برخط بوک

<ul><li><span style="color:hsl(0, 75%, 60%);"><strong>ارسال و توزیع از یکشنبه 11 آبان&nbsp;</strong></span><br>مطالعات روان‌کاوانه‌ی رسانه حوزه‌ای میان‌رشته‌ای است که با استفاده از مفاهیم و نظریه‌های ...

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Armen Nalbandian@armennalbandian.com · 10mo ago

is Spotify (and its distribution partners) retaliating against artists who boycott? this video is about what happened after I removed my music from Spotify. please reach out if you’ve experienced something similar

Roland Meyer@bildoperationen.bsky.social · last yr.

This fits perfectly, as the default aesthetic of #AIslop already owes a lot to Kinkade: If you look at algorithmically curated databases used to fine-tune AI models such as «LAION aesthetics,» you'll find Kinkade's paintings ranked higher than almost anything else in terms of «aesthetic score» 1/

Aesthetic subset of LAION, above 6.5 predicted rating, the first image is a kinkade
Miles Klee 🦉@milesklee.bsky.social · last yr.

apparently you can get so embarrassed about posting nothing but fascist AI slop that you have to pivot to postcard kitsch by the greatest hack to ever live

Tweet from Department of Homeland Security: "Protect the Homeland. 'Morning Pledge' by Thomas Kinkade." Image: a terrible fucking stupid Thomas Kinkade painting, absolute wet shit
Ashley Lynch ✂️🎞️@ashleylynch.bsky.social · last yr.

WeTransfer just changed their TOS giving themselves permission to train AI on any content you transfer and produce derivative works based on content you transfer that they are allowed to monetize and you are not allowed payment for. Stop using WeTransfer.