TY - BOOK ID - 32940701 TI - Lacan and the Posthuman AU - Matviyenko, Svitlana. AU - Roof, Judith. PY - 2018 SN - 331976327X 3319763261 PB - Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, DB - UniCat KW - Psychoanalysis. KW - Philosophical anthropology. KW - Lacan, Jacques, KW - Psychology. KW - Literature, Modern KW - Philosophy. KW - Self. KW - Identity (Psychology). KW - Self and Identity. KW - Psychosocial Studies. KW - Contemporary Literature. KW - Philosophy of Technology. KW - 20th century. KW - 21st century. KW - Psychology KW - Psychology, Pathological KW - Personal identity KW - Personality KW - Self KW - Ego (Psychology) KW - Individuality KW - Consciousness KW - Mind and body KW - Thought and thinking KW - Will KW - Mental philosophy KW - Humanities KW - Literature KW - Behavioral sciences KW - Mind KW - Science, Mental KW - Human biology KW - Philosophy KW - Soul KW - Mental health KW - Anthropology, Philosophical KW - Man (Philosophy) KW - Civilization KW - Life KW - Ontology KW - Humanism KW - Persons KW - Philosophy of mind KW - Lacan, Jacques KW - Social psychology. KW - Literature, Modern-20th century. KW - Mass psychology KW - Psychology, Social KW - Human ecology KW - Social groups KW - Sociology KW - Literature, Modern—20th century. KW - Literature, Modern—21st century. KW - Philosophy of mind. KW - Technology—Philosophy. KW - Philosophy of the Self. KW - Social Psychology. KW - Mind, Philosophy of KW - Mind, Theory of KW - Theory of mind KW - Cognitive science KW - Metaphysics KW - Philosophical anthropology UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:32940701 AB - When Posthumanism displaces the traditional human subject, what does psychoanalysis add to contemporary conversations about subject/object relations, systems, perspectives, and values? This book discusses whether Posthumanism itself is a cultural indication of a shift in thinking that is moving from language to matter, from a politics focused on social relations to one organized according to a broader sense of object in environments. Together the authors question what is at stake in this shift and what psychoanalysis can say about it. Promoting psychoanalysis’ focus on the cybernetic relationships among subjects, language, social organizations, desire, drive, and other human motivations, this book demonstrates the continued relevance of Lacan’s work not only to continued understandings of the human subject, but to the broader cultural impasses we now face. Why Posthumanism? Why now? In what ways is Posthumanist thought linked to the emergence of digital technologies? Exploring Posthumanism from the insights of Lacan’s psychoanalysis, chapters expose and elucidate not only the conditions within which Posthumanist thought arises, but also reveal symptoms of its flaws: the blindness to anthropomorphization, projection, and unrecognized shifts in scale and perspective, as well as its mode of transcendental thought that enables many Posthumanist declarations. This book explains how Lacanian notions of the subject inform current discussions about human complicity with, and resistance to, algorithmic governing regimes, which themselves more wholly produce a “post”- humanism than any philosophical displacement of human centrality could. . ER -