“Boldly drawing on a vast range of academic disciplines orchestrated by an enviable psychoanalytic erudition and an original treatment of so-called “sexbots” as a central object for contemporary speculative and social investigation, Millar’…that we arrive at the point of raising the question how to make the One into something that holds up, that is, that is counted without being. Mathematization alone reaches a real [...] a real that has nothing to do with what traditional kno…[^5]: Whilst psychoanalytic film theory in its traditional incarnations will not be employed, it must be acknowledged that through the work primarily of Todd McGowan, the field of Lacanian film theory has taken a turn closer to matching the…
Todd McGowan
philosopher · 5 mentions across 2 readings
In this course
Todd McGowan's work in Lacanian film theory provides a psychoanalytic framework for analyzing how desire, the real, and ideological structures operate through visual media—a methodological foundation the course readings draw on to examine technology and artifice beyond traditional approaches. His intervention in film theory toward more speculative and material concerns allows the seminar to think through how AI systems, sexbots, and infected media objects might be analyzed not just as representations but as objects that expose the gap between symbolic order and an irreducible real. His theoretical apparatus appears here as enabling a psychoanalytic reading of contemporary technological objects that avoids both naive determinism and purely formal film criticism.
Mentioned in 2 readings
The infected tv, when shut off, appears like any other consumer appliance in “off” mode: dead screen, no green LED. The relationship between the Weeping Angel alien entity, the software implant, and the surveillance program’s seemingly mult…Operation Vula, quote stuffing, hydras, Vortex, “Bayesian flooding” and “unselling” Generalizing FaceCloak; exploit and asymmetry…
Fogging, Flooding, and Surfacing, Amplification, Inhibition, Wiping…
[^1]: Lyotard, Jean Francois. tr. Ian …
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