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.
| ISBN: | 9781501360145 |
| Publication date: | 28th November 2019 |
| Author: | Professor Clint Simon Fraser University, Canada Burnham |
| Publisher: | Bloomsbury Academic USA an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 240 pages |
| Series: | Psychoanalytic Horizons |
| Genres: |
Literary theory Western philosophy from c 1800 Media studies Philosophy: aesthetics |
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.
Does the Internet Have an Unconscious? features in the following genres: Literary theory, Western philosophy from c 1800, Media studies, Philosophy: aesthetics
Does the Internet Have an Unconscious? is available in Paperback, Hardback
Does the Internet Have an Unconscious? was written by Professor Clint Simon Fraser University, Canada Burnham and published by Bloomsbury Academic USA an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Does the Internet Have an Unconscious? has 240 pages
Yes it is part of Psychoanalytic Horizons series