Sanja M. Bojanic

The aim is to reinterpret Victor Tausk’s psychoanalytic concept of the influencing machine as a framework for understanding how contemporary AI systems shape human cognition, agency, and labor. Once a private delusion, the influencing machine is now a public infrastructure—manifest in algorithmic environments that automate attention, decision-making, and meaning. Model Context Protocols (MCPs) as computational structures regulate interaction and reframe what constitutes thought and autonomy. Drawing on psychoanalysis, media theory, and political philosophy, the book will examine how AI agents not only assist humans but also restructure affective and cognitive processes through machinic alignment and protocol-driven control. AI is positioned not as a neutral tool but as a cultural and psychological force, transforming subjectivity and governance. By analyzing AI as a desiring-machine, this work critically addresses the politics of automation, discretion, and captured agency in posthuman societies.

A canonical book of French theory by Luce Irigaray, Speculum de l’autre femme, failed once to be translated into Serbian due to the rich, highly advanced philosophical and psychoanalytical language and specific style of the author. Currently considered a classic reference work in cultural studies, especially within gender and post-feminist disciplines in the Western world, this book will certainly gain audience among students throughout the social sciences and humanities in Serbia but should also appeal to a broad range of intellectuals.