RU136: AMY GAETA ON POETRY, CRITICAL THEORY, DISABILITY STUDIES, TECH, AI, ACTIVISM, PSYCHOANALYSIS

Amy Gaeta is a PhD candidate in English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She takes a transdisciplinary approach by bringing together critical disability studies, feminist science and technology, and visual culture studies to understand the present and prospective roles of A.I., automation, and robots. Her dissertation, Drone Life: A Feminist Crip Analysis of the Human examines positive affects toward drones to theorize how drones are changing what it means to be human. Her next project examines A.I.’s role in the treatment of mental illness and cognitive disabilities within the global mental health crisis. https://aegaeta.wixsite.com/website Follow her at Twitter: https://twitter.com/GaetaAmy And Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/amy_gaeta/ This episode is also available to view at YouTube: https://youtu.be/YcIJ-ZpS16o Rendering Unconscious Podcast is hosted by psychoanalyst Dr. Vanessa Sinclair, who interviews psychoanalysts, psychologists, scholars, creative arts therapists, writers, poets, philosophers, artists & other intellectuals about their process, world events, the current state of mental health care, politics, culture, the arts & more. Episodes are also created from lectures given at various international conferences: www.drvanessasinclair.net Rendering Unconscious Podcast can be found at Spotify, iTunes, YouTube, Vimeo… Please visit www.renderingunconscious.org/about for links to all of these sites. Rendering Unconscious is also a book! Rendering Unconscious: Psychoanalytic Perspectives, Politics and Poetry (Trapart, 2019): store.trapart.net/details/00000 You can support the podcast at: www.patreon.com/vanessa23carl Your support is greatly appreciated. The song at the end of the episode is "A Vehicle" from the album "The Pathways of the Heart (For Jess)" by Vanessa Sinclair and Carl Abrahamsson: https://vanessasinclaircarlabrahamsson.bandcamp.com Many thanks to Carl Abrahamsson for creating the intro and outro music for Rendering Unconscious Podcast. Portrait of Amy Gaeta by David Knight https://aegaeta.wixsite.com/website