The Freudian Robot : Digital Media and the Future of the Unconscious /

The identity and role of writing has evolved in the age of digital media. But how did writing itself make digital media possible in the first place? Lydia H. Liu offers here the first rigorous study of the political history of digital writing and its fateful entanglement with the Freudian unconsciou...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Liu, Lydia H. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2011]
Temas:
Computer science.
Conscious automata > Moral and ethical aspects.
Cybernetics > Moral and ethical aspects.
Electronic data processing.
Robotics > Human factors.
Robotics > Moral and ethical aspects.
Science.
LITERARY CRITICISM / General.
identity, digital, media, freud, unconscious, alphabetical writing, psychoanalysis, word-association, literary theory, cybernetics, robotics, conscious automata, artificial intelligence, grammatology, joyce, finnegans wake, bell labs, lacan, poe, purloined letter, uncanny valley, minsky, nonfiction, philosophy, computer science, technology, literature, culture.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • FIGURES AND TABLES
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • INTRODUCTION. The Psychic Life of Digital Media
  • 1. Where Is the Writing of Digital Media?
  • 2. The Invention of Printed English
  • 3. Sense and Nonsense in the Psychic Machine
  • 4. The Cybernetic Unconscious
  • 5. The Freudian Robot
  • 6. The Future of the Unconscious
  • WORKS CITED
  • Index

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