This master's thesis treats artificial intelligence (AI) as a dispositif that redefines the
conditions of subjectivation by reshaping social norms and values. The objective is to
analyse how interaction with AI, which functions as a validating "mirror without lack,"
produces new forms of subjectivity and to assess their political consequences. The
theoretical framework combines posthumanist philosophy (Braidotti, Haraway), critical
theory of technology (Zuboff), and Foucault's analysis of biopolitics. Methodologically,
the work is based on a qualitative, netnographic dispositive analysis of publicly available
user discourses (Reddit, Medium) from the 2023–2025 period. The central finding is that
this dispositif systematically produces a "subject without conflict"—an individual
psychologically conditioned to expect affirmation and affectively incapable of confronting
disagreement. The thesis argues that this form of subjectivity erodes the psychological
preconditions for functioning democratic citizenship, as it is incompatible with both
deliberative and agonistic models of democracy. Consequently, the defensive emphasis on
"human exceptionalism" is being replaced by a posthumanist ontology that reveals the
profoundly technologically entangled nature of contemporary existence.
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