Interface fantasy : a Lacanian cyborg ontology /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Nusselder, André
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2009]
Series:	Short circuits.
Subjects:	Psychoanalysis and philosophy. Technology > Philosophy. Information technology. Cyberspace.

Table of Contents:

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.