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Interface fantasy : a Lacanian cyborg ontology /

Behind our computer screens we are all cyborgs: through fantasy we can understand our involvement in virtual worlds. Cyberspace is first and foremost a mental space. Therefore we need to take a psychological approach to understand our experiences in it. In Interface Fantasy, Andre Nusselder uses the...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Nusselder, André
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2009.
Colección:Short circuits.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.