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

Professor Clint Burnham (Simon Fraser University, Canada)

Does the Internet Have an Unconscious?: Slavoj Zizek and Digital Culture
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Country
United States
Published
31 May 2018
Pages
240
ISBN
9781501341298

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

Professor Clint Burnham (Simon Fraser University, Canada)

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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