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| − | ''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]].</div> | + | ''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]]. |
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| | + | 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. |
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| | + | Mixing autobiographical passages with critical [[analysis]], Burnham situates a Žižekian [[theory]] of digital [[culture]] in the lived [[human]] [[body]].</div> |
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| | + | ==Review== |
| | + | "Clint Burnham does not merely apply psychoanalysis to the internet; he demonstrates how the unconscious itself is '[[structured]] like the internet, ' how our entanglement in the impenetrable digital web allows us to understand properly the way the unconscious overdetermines our [[thinking]] and activities. This is why Burnham's path-breaking book reaches much deeper than the usual [[analyses]] of the social and [[psychological]] implications of the internet: it does not just socialize and historicise the internet, it throws a new light on the unconscious itself." |
| | + | ''Slavoj [[Zizek]], Senior Researcher in the Department of [[Philosophy]], [[University]] of [[Ljubljana]], [[Slovenia]], and [[author]] of Less Than [[Nothing]]: [[Hegel]] and the Shadow of [[Dialectical]] Materialism'' |
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| | + | "Clint Burnham has produced the definitive [[psychoanalytic]] account of digital culture. This is the book that those seeking to understand how the unconscious manifests itself in the digital [[universe]] have been waiting for. For too long, psychoanalytic theorists have confined themselves to analyses of [[film]] and [[literature]], but now Burnham provides the breakthrough. Far from [[being]] an application of psychoanalysis to a foreign realm, the digital provides the privileged ground for encountering the unconscious. As Burnham's delightful and witty prose indicates, the internet functions as an [[event]] with [[concrete]] ramifications for the psyches that emerge in its wake." |
| | + | ''Todd McGowan, Professor of [[English]], University of Vermont, USA, and author of Only a [[Joke]] Can Save Us: A Theory of [[Comedy]]'' |
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| | + | "Were there ever two [[formations]] with less in common than 'the Internet, ' a machinic transmission of discrete data, and 'psychoanalysis, ' a wild [[science]] of messy social relationality? Clint Burnham's [[genius]] is to show how psychoanalysis is indispensable to any robust theory of digital culture, but as well to reveal the cybernetics already at work in [[psychoanalytic theory]] from [[Freud]] to Zizek. In readings of multiple media, he vividly demonstrates the ongoing [[necessity]] of [[concepts]] like [[negation]], [[enjoyment]], and [[disavowal]] for making [[sense]] of aesthetic productions like [[cinema]], social experiences like [[Facebook]], and the cyber [[mode of production]] that binds online pleasures to offline battery factories. This is an expansive, fascinating book, offering its readers a dazzling plenty of [[speculation]] and critique." |
| | + | ''Anna Kornbluh, Associate Professor of English, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA, and author of Realizing [[Capital]]: Financial and [[Psychic]] Economies in Victorian [[Form]] (2013)'' |
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| | + | ==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). |
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Description
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.
Review
"Clint Burnham does not merely apply psychoanalysis to the internet; he demonstrates how the unconscious itself is 'structured like the internet, ' how our entanglement in the impenetrable digital web allows us to understand properly the way the unconscious overdetermines our thinking and activities. This is why Burnham's path-breaking book reaches much deeper than the usual analyses of the social and psychological implications of the internet: it does not just socialize and historicise the internet, it throws a new light on the unconscious itself."
Slavoj Zizek, Senior Researcher in the Department of Philosophy, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, and author of Less Than Nothing: Hegel and the Shadow of Dialectical Materialism
"Clint Burnham has produced the definitive psychoanalytic account of digital culture. This is the book that those seeking to understand how the unconscious manifests itself in the digital universe have been waiting for. For too long, psychoanalytic theorists have confined themselves to analyses of film and literature, but now Burnham provides the breakthrough. Far from being an application of psychoanalysis to a foreign realm, the digital provides the privileged ground for encountering the unconscious. As Burnham's delightful and witty prose indicates, the internet functions as an event with concrete ramifications for the psyches that emerge in its wake."
Todd McGowan, Professor of English, University of Vermont, USA, and author of Only a Joke Can Save Us: A Theory of Comedy
"Were there ever two formations with less in common than 'the Internet, ' a machinic transmission of discrete data, and 'psychoanalysis, ' a wild science of messy social relationality? Clint Burnham's genius is to show how psychoanalysis is indispensable to any robust theory of digital culture, but as well to reveal the cybernetics already at work in psychoanalytic theory from Freud to Zizek. In readings of multiple media, he vividly demonstrates the ongoing necessity of concepts like negation, enjoyment, and disavowal for making sense of aesthetic productions like cinema, social experiences like Facebook, and the cyber mode of production that binds online pleasures to offline battery factories. This is an expansive, fascinating book, offering its readers a dazzling plenty of speculation and critique."
Anna Kornbluh, Associate Professor of English, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA, and author of Realizing Capital: Financial and Psychic Economies in Victorian Form (2013)
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).
Downloads
