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The Freudian Robot : Digital Media and the Future of the Unconscious (Paperback, New)
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The Freudian Robot : Digital Media and the Future of the Unconscious (Paperback, New)
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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 unconscious. Liu's innovative
analysis brings the work of theorists and writers back into
conversation with one another to document significant meetings of
minds and disciplines. She shows how the earlier avant-garde
literary experiments with alphabetical writing and the
word-association games of psychoanalysis contributed to the
mathematical making of digital media. Such intellectual
convergence, she argues, completed the transformation of
alphabetical writing into the post-phonetic, ideographic system of
digital media, which not only altered the threshold of sense and
nonsense in communication processes but also compelled a new
understanding of human-machine interplay at the level of the
unconscious. Ranging across information theory, cybernetics,
modernism, literary theory, neurotic machines, and psychoanalysis,
"The Freudian Robot" rewrites the history of digital media and the
literary theory of the twentieth century.
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