Lacan and the Posthuman (The Palgrave Lacan Series)

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When Posthumanism displaces the traditional human subject, what does psychoanalysis add to recent 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 may be moving from language to matter, from a politics desirous about social relations to one organized in keeping with a broader sense of object in environments. Together the authors question what is at stake on this shift and what psychoanalysis can say about it. 

Promoting psychoanalysis’ focal point at 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 in addition reveal symptoms of its flaws: the blindness to anthropomorphization, projection, and unrecognized shifts in scale and point of view, in addition to 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. 

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