Nonconscious

Growing numbers of nonhuman companions are creating affective synching between human and nonhuman agency. Unlike the unconscious of psychoanalysis, this book argues, the resulting nonconscious is no longer coupled to a subject grounded in language, instead acting as an affective link between technical, mental, and physical processes.

Nonconscious

On the Affective Synching of Mind and Machine

Growing numbers of nonhuman companions (smart objects, technical environments, sensor technologies used to augment the human body) are creating affective synching between human and nonhuman agency. Unlike the unconscious of psychoanalysis, this book argues, the resulting nonconscious is no longer coupled to a subject grounded in language, instead acting as an affective link between technical, mental, and physical processes. But how is this nonconscious to be understood? Is it something additional, a new zone intervening between the unconscious and consciousness? Or does it fundamentally call into question the distinction between the two?

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Publishing Year
2022
Language
English
Pages
87
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€ 14.90 RRP
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ISBNs
978-3-95796-204-1 (Print)
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DOI
10.14619/2041
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The Author

Marie-Luise Angerer was a professor of Media Studies at the University of Potsdam. The focus of her research is on media technology, affect and neuroscientific reformulations of desire and sexuality. Her publications include Desire After Affect (2014, German original 2007), Choreographie – Medien – Gender (with Yvonne Hardt and Anna-Carolin Weber, 2013), Timing of Affect: Epistemologies, Aesthetics, Politics (with Bernd Bösel and Michaela Ott, 2014), numerous articles in books and journals on the topic of posthumanism and affective politics.

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