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Machinic Extimacy (Paperback)
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Machinic Extimacy (Paperback)
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"The machine is neither an intimate part of me, nor is it other.
Instead: it is that within me which belongs to the other. The
machine is ex-timate." This book attempts to challenge
traditionally held theories of technology assuming a clear-cut
distinction between the machine and the human. Heralded by both
instrumentalism and determinism alike, the belief in technology as
a radical other to subjective becoming has seduced current debate
into an apocalyptic deadlock that ultimately presents us with a
false choice between salvation and destruction, technophilia and
technophobia. Here, a psychoanalytic theory, derived from the work
of Jacques Lacan, may be introduced as a method of critical
intervention. The machine is re-imagined as no longer the fantastic
locus of final overcoming, but an originary supplement to the
negotiation of being. Not least Martin Heidegger's famous lecture
"Die Frage zum Wesen der Technologie" as well as its profound
influence on thinkers such as Marshall McLuhan and Jean Baudrillard
may thus be critically explored from a Lacanian vantage point.
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