Description
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.
Author: Clint Burnham
Publisher: Continnuum-3PL
Published: 11/28/2019
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.61lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.49d
ISBN13: 9781501360145
ISBN10: 1501360140
BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | Semiotics & Theory
- Philosophy | History & Surveys | Modern
- Psychology | Movements | Psychoanalysis
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.
Author: Clint Burnham
Publisher: Continnuum-3PL
Published: 11/28/2019
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.61lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.49d
ISBN13: 9781501360145
ISBN10: 1501360140
BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | Semiotics & Theory
- Philosophy | History & Surveys | Modern
- Psychology | Movements | Psychoanalysis
About the Author
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).