Screen LibraryThe Freudian robot：digital media and the future of the unconscious
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University of Chicago Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Chicago |
| Publication Dates: | 2010. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Carrier Form: | xi, 302 p.: ill. ; 24 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9780226486826 (cloth : alk. paper) 0226486826 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| Index Number: | TP24 |
| CLC: | TP24-05 |
| Call Number: | TP24-05/L783 |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-286) and index. Introduction: the psychic life of digital media -- Where is the writing of digital media? -- Why civilization matters -- Postmodernity and new media -- Conceptual lacunae -- Fundamental challenge to literary theory -- The techne of the unconscious -- The invention of printed English -- How the English alphabet gained a new letter -- What is printed English? -- The genetic code and grammatology -- The ideographic turn of the phonetic alphabet -- The number game in the empires of the mind -- Sense and nonsense in the psychic machine -- Finnegans wake: a hypermnesiac machine? -- Ispace: Joyce's paper wounds -- Schizoprenic writing at Bell Labs. |