Does the Internet Have an Unconscious?: Slavoj Zizek and Digital Culture

by Clint Burnham

Book Overview

Does the Internet Have an Unconscious? is both an introduction to the work of Slavoj Zizek 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 Zizek'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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501341294
• ISBN13: 9781501341298
• Release Date: May 2018
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"