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Record Nr.

UNINA9910457375203321

Autore

Clough Patricia Ticineto <1945->

Titolo

Autoaffection [[electronic resource] ] : unconscious thought in the age of teletechnology / / Patricia Ticineto Clough

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2000

ISBN

0-8166-8780-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (226 p.)

Disciplina

303.48/33

Soggetti

Technology - Social aspects

Telecommunication - Social aspects

Thought and thinking

Subconsciousness

Cognition and culture

Psychoanalysis and culture

Poststructuralism

Postmodernism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-207) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Thought's Reach to the Future; Television: A Sacred Machine; ONE: The Technical Substrates of Unconscious Memory; TWO: The Generalized Unconscious of Desiring Production; THREE: Queer Desire and the Technobodies of Feminist Theory; FOUR: The Ontological Perspective of Knowledge Objects; Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Patricia Ticineto Clough reenergizes critical theory by viewing poststructuralist thought through the lens of "teletechnology," using television as a recurring case study to illuminate the changing relationships between subjectivity, technology, and mass media.