Interface fantasy : a Lacanian cyborg ontology / André Nusselder.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nusselder, André.

Series:

Short circuits

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychoanalysis and philosophy.

Technology--Philosophy.

Technology.

Information technology.

Cyberspace.

Physical Description:

xi, 169 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2009]

Contents:

Introducing a psychoanalytic theory of cyberspace

The question concerning technology and desire. Fantasy at the interface ; Technological eros

The technologization of human virtuality. Introducing virtuality ; Virtualization (I) : language and law ; Virtualization (II) : technology

Fantasy and the virtual mind. "Information wants to be free"? ; Mind and body : Descartes, Wiener, and Lacan ; Information wants imagination

Cyborg space. The body in space ; Surfing the hall of mirrors

Displays of the real : reality as an effect. Techné and tuché ; Screen and window

Mediated enjoyment, enjoyed media. The media perversion ; Bits of enjoyment ; Subjectivity at the interface of meatspace and cyberspace.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780262513005

0262513005

OCLC:

300029814