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This lecture explores female Christian erotic mysticism as an early philosophy of artificial intelligence, linking theological texts to contemporary forms of human–machine intimacy.

Description

This lecture engages with female Christian erotic mysticism—from the Middle Ages to modernity—as an early philosophical framework for thinking about artificial intelligence. Drawing on original mystical writings alongside contemporary cyberculture theory, it proposes that female mystics and stigmatics can be read as unexpected thinkers of the internet to come.

The talk brings together theological texts, cyber/feminist theory, and contemporary technological practices, including AI partner applications, virtual reality environments, and remote sex technologies. Through this juxtaposition, it develops a reading of mysticism as a mode of thought that anticipates forms of human–machine intimacy and artificial reproduction.

Grounded in both personal and intellectual history—including the author’s education in a Catholic school founded by Polish mystic Marcelina Darowska—the lecture links religious experience, technological imagination, and contemporary digital culture.

Rather than treating artificial intelligence as a purely modern phenomenon, it proposes a prophetic continuity: the writings of mystics model ways of thinking about inhuman eroticism, mediation, and the future of the human species in relation to machines.

Links

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXGLC5SFErw&t=568s

Reference

Konior, Bogna. Angels in Latent Spaces: Notes on AI Erotics. Lecture at OpenLAB#03 Synthetic Minds, Medialab Matadero, Madrid, February 9–10, 2024.