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Does the Internet Have an Unconscious?: Slavoj Zizek and Digital Culture: Psychoanalytic Horizons

Autor Professor Clint Burnham
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 27 noi 2019
Does the Internet Have an Unconscious? is both an introduction to the work of Slavoj Zizek 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 Zizek'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 Zizekian theory of digital culture in the lived human body.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781501360145
ISBN-10: 1501360140
Pagini: 240
Ilustrații: 3 b/w illustrations
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 11 mm
Greutate: 0.28 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Seria Psychoanalytic Horizons

Locul publicării:New York, United States

Caracteristici

Serves as a general introduction to Zizek's thought in addition to delving deeper into the applications of his theories

Notă biografică

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).

Cuprins

List of FiguresList of AbbreviationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Does the Internet Have an Unconscious?2. Slavoj Zizek 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

Recenzii

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.
Clint Burnham has produced the definitive psychoanalytic account of digital culture. This is the book that those seeking to understand how the unconscious manifests itself in the digital universe have been waiting for. For too long, psychoanalytic theorists have confined themselves to analyses of film and literature, but now Burnham provides the breakthrough. Far from being an application of psychoanalysis to a foreign realm, the digital provides the privileged ground for encountering the unconscious. As Burnham's delightful and witty prose indicates, the internet functions as an event with concrete ramifications for the psyches that emerge in its wake.
Were there ever two formations with less in common than 'the Internet,' a machinic transmission of discrete data, and 'psychoanalysis,' a wild science of messy social relationality? Clint Burnham's genius is to show how psychoanalysis is indispensable to any robust theory of digital culture, but as well to reveal the cybernetics already at work in psychoanalytic theory from Freud to Zizek. In readings of multiple media, he vividly demonstrates the ongoing necessity of concepts like negation, enjoyment, and disavowal for making sense of aesthetic productions like cinema, social experiences like Facebook, and the cyber mode of production that binds online pleasures to offline battery factories. This is an expansive, fascinating book, offering its readers a dazzling plenty of speculation and critique.