Michael Klipphahn-Karge is an art historian at Technische Universität Dresden and Editor of the peer-reviewed online journal w/k Between Science and Art.

Ann-Kathrin Koster is a Research Associate at the Weizenbaum-Institute, Berlin.

Sara Morais dos Santos Bruss is a media theorist and curator at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin.

Preface

Introduction: Queer(y)ing AI

Part I Genealogies

1. Queering intelligence: A theory of intelligence as performance and a critique of individual and artificial intelligence

2. Neural "freedoms": Population, choice, and machine learning

3. I spy with my little AI: How queer bodies are made dirty for digital technologies to claim cleanness

Part II Materialities

4. We're all cyborgs now? Cripping the smart cyborg

5. Uncanny bodies: Queer subjects, artificial surrogates, and ambiguous robotics

6. Patching & hoarding. Recodings of digital reproduction technologies

Part III Speculations

7. Wild Science/Fiction: Conscious AI as queer excess in VanderMeer's Annihilation.

8. Innovation and iteration: Queer machines and the mension between manifesto and manifestor

9. AI as medium and message: The (im)possibility of a queer response

Conclusion

10. Inconclusion: Absent presences