Does the Internet Have an Unconscious?

Slavoj Žižek and Digital Culture

AvClint Burnham,Esther Rashkin

Inbunden, Engelska, 2018

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Beskrivning

Does the Internet Have an Unconscious? is both an introduction to the work of Slavoj Žižek and an investigation into how his work can be used to think about the digital present.Clint Burnham uniquely combines the German idealism, Lacanian psychoanalysis, and Marxist materialism found in Žižek’s thought to understand how the Internet, social and new media, and digital cultural forms work in our lives and how their failure to work structures our pathologies and fantasies. He suggests that our failure to properly understand the digital is due to our lack of recognition of its political, aesthetic, and psycho-sexual elements. Mixing autobiographical passages with critical analysis, Burnham situates a Žižekian theory of digital culture in the lived human body.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2018-05-31
Mått:140 x 216 x undefined mm
Vikt:422 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Psychoanalytic Horizons
Antal sidor:240
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9781501341298

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Medievetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Filosofiska discipliner inom Filosofi och religion
Litteraturteori inom Skönlitteratur

Mer om författaren

Clint Burnham is Professor of English at Simon Fraser University, Canada. He is the author of Fredric Jameson and The Wolf of Wall Street (Bloomsbury, 2016).

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Clint Burnham does not merely apply psychoanalysis to the internet; he demonstrates how the unconscious itself is 'structured like the internet,' how our entanglement in the impenetrable digital web allows us to understand properly the way the unconscious overdetermines our thinking and activities. This is why Burnham’s path-breaking book reaches much deeper than the usual analyses of the social and psychological implications of the internet: it does not just socialize and historicise the internet, it throws a new light on the unconscious itself.

Innehållsförteckning

List of FiguresList of AbbreviationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Does the Internet Have an Unconscious?2. Slavoj Žižek as Internet Philosopher3. Was Facebook an Event?4. Is the Internet a Thing?5. The Subject Supposed to LOL6. Her: Or, There Is No Digital Relation (with Matthew Flisfeder)7. The Selfie and the CloudConclusionNotesIndex