Engineering desire : algorithmic environments and the promise of wholeness / Ciano Aydin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Aydin, Ciano, 1972- author.

Series:

Routledge focus on philosophy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lacan, Jacques, 1901-1981.

Lacan, Jacques.

Desire.

Psychoanalysis and philosophy.

Subjectivity.

Technology--Philosophy.

Technology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (136 pages) : illustrations (black and white).

Place of Publication:

London : Routledge, 2026.

Summary:

Why do technological promises remain so compelling? Artificial intelligence, digital platforms and algorithmic systems continue to attract extraordinary levels of attention, investment and hope. Their transformative promise persists despite visible shortcomings, recurring disappointments and mounting social and environmental concerns.Drawing on Lacanian psychoanalysis, Ciano Aydin offers a new way of understanding this enduring appeal. Shifting attention from behavior to desire and from power to receptivity, he reveals the existential dimensions of our investment in algorithmic environments. Using Tinder as a paradigmatic case, the book shows how these environments increasingly organize desire itself by offering recognition, orientation, certainty and the fantasy of wholeness.But algorithmic environments are not merely sites of illusion. The same systems that sustain fantasies of self-knowledge and completion can also lay bare the structure of desire itself. Engineering Desire offers a distinctive framework for understanding both the risks and possibilities of contemporary technological life, rethinking singular self-formation as a possibility within technological mediation.

Notes:

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

9781042010912

OCLC:

1593893989

Publisher Number:

CIPO000407126