Interface fantasy
Subtitle: a Lacanian cyborg ontology
By: André Nusselder.
Series: Short circuits
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780262513005
Subjects: Psychoanalysis and philosophy; Technology -- Philosophy; Information technology; Cyberspace
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introducing a psychoanalytic theory of cyberspace; title: The question concerning technology and desire; title: Fantasy at the interface; title: A freudian view on cyberspace; title: Fantasy as design; title: Designing presence with metaphors; title: Channels of perception : the imagination and the understanding; title: Mind the gap!; title: Technological eros; title: Philosophy of technology : substantialism and constructivism; title: Technology beyond conscious intentions; title: Technology : from means to media of desire; title: Technological eros and the seduction of the essential copy; title: A desire for simulation; title: The technologization of human virtuality; title: Introducing virtuality; title: Virtuality : a historical overview; title: Computer virtual reality : interactivity and immersion; title: The real and the virtual in digital technologies : four models; title: Virtualization (i) : language and law; title: Pierre Levy : characteristics of virtualization; title: Forces of virtualization : language, law, and technology; title: Language as virtualization : other scenes; title: The retroaction of a real time; title: Law as the virtualization of a natural force; title: The unconscious is outside; title: Virtualization (ii) : technology; title: The digital revolution : from object to interface; title: Digitization and the mind's schemes of representation; title: Technological fiction : invocational media; title: Fantasy and the virtual mind; title: Information wants to be free; title: Modern representation and the transparency of the screen; title: Post-modern simulation and the opacity of the screen; title: Deconstructing signs and subjects :  semiotics and digitization; title: Towards a lacanian theory of the subject in the  mode of  Information; title: Codes and content : Descartes, Wiener, and Lacan; title: Descartes : causality and imagination; title: Cartesian perspectivism and affectivity; title: Wiener and Lacan : the logic of cyborgs; title: Cybernetics and embodiment; title: Media of fantasy; title: Information and meaning; title: A lacanian third wave cybernetics codes incorporated; title: Fantasy as the stuff of the virtual subject; title: Interactive environments (i) : fantasy as a subjective-objective space; title: The imaginary space of cyborg subjectivity; title: The body in space; title: The conception of space : physical, psychological; title: Mirror space : the ego as a virtual unity; title: Imaginary space : the psychical investment in bodily images; title: Interfacing man and world; title: Fascination : the double bind of occupying virtual space; title: Surfing the hall of mirrors; title: Narcosis and the promise of relief; title: Avatars : the virtual body; title: Affective avatars; title: Anxiety and paranoia : the precarious balance of the narcotic; title: Organism; title: Displays of the real : reality as an effect; title: Tech and tuch; title: The computerized self : appearance or illusion; title: Being virtual : the pleasure principle and its beyond; title: Jouissance beyond pleasure : the encounter with the real; title: Defense and disclosure : the two-fold relation to the real; title: Screen and window; title: Screened illusions : fetishism, phobia and its computerized treatment; title: The unconscious fantasy online; title: The screen and the other : perspectives on computer psychotherapy; title: Interactive environments (ii) : the screen as a window or frame; title: Mediated enjoyment, enjoyed media; title: The media perversion; title: Techno-fetishism; title: A disavowal of a real life; title: The vital disavowal; title: Believing through technologies : the notion interpassivity; title: Perverse media : staging a surplus of enjoyment; title: Bits of enjoyment; title: Lifestyles and the body; title: The screen and the drive : fantasy providing pieces of enjoyment; title: Drive me crazy : audio-visual culture and its excess; title: Ideological interpellation in an age of information; title: Subjectivized enjoyment; title: Subjectivity at the interface of meatspace and cyberspace; title: Making scenes : the formula of fantasy; title: The secondary time of cyberspace.