[Air-L] Digital Media, Psychoanalysis and the Subject - CM special issue published

Jacob Johanssen johanssenjacob at gmail.com
Fri Mar 3 03:34:37 PST 2017


*Digital Media, Psychoanalysis and the Subject Editors: Jacob Johanssen
(University of Westminster) and Steffen Krüger (University of Oslo)*




We are very pleased to announce the publication of the special issue
Digital Media, Psychoanalysis and the Subject, published by the open access
journal *CM: Communication and Media*.

This is the first-ever special issue of a media and communication journal
that addresses questions of subjectivity, digital media and the Internet
with a focus on psychoanalytic theory.

The contributing authors seek to reassess and reinvigorate psychoanalytic
thinking in media and communication studies. They undertake this
reassessment with a particular focus on the question of what psychoanalytic
concepts, theories and modes of inquiry can contribute to the study of
contemporary digital media.



The collection features a broad range of psychoanalytic approaches - from
Freudian, via Kleinian and relational, to Lacanian and Jungian - and covers
a wide range of issues - from the uses (and abuses) of the mobile phone and
other digital devices, the circulation of traumatising images and
anxiety-inducing tracking apps, via hysteric feminist discourses, digital
fetishes and the exploitation of YouTube celebrities, to the meaning of the
gangbang in a priapistic media culture and this culture's emptying-out of
meaning towards its climax in a cosmic spasm...



We hope that colleagues will find this collection informative and engaging
and a helpful resource for their own work.




*Table of Contents and Download Links:*

Thinking (with) the Unconscious in Media and Communication Studies:
Introduction to the Special Issue
Steffen Krüger (University of Oslo) and Jacob Johanssen (University of
Westminster)

http://aseestant.ceon.rs/index.php/comman/article/view/13131/5045


Framing the Mobile Phone: The Psychopathologies of an Everyday Object
Iain MacRury and Candida Yates (Bournemouth University)

http://aseestant.ceon.rs/index.php/comman/article/view/11517/5044


'"If you show your real face, you’ll lose 10 000 followers” – The Gaze of
the Other and Transformations of Shame in Digitalized Relationships
Vera King (Sigmund-Freud-Institute & Goethe-University)

http://aseestant.ceon.rs/index.php/comman/article/view/11504/5043

Media Traumatization, Symbolic Wounds and Digital Culture
Allen Meek (Massey University)
http://aseestant.ceon.rs/index.php/comman/article/view/11442/5041

The Other Self in Free Fall: Anxiety and Automated Tracking Applications
Christopher Gutierrez (McGill University)
http://aseestant.ceon.rs/index.php/comman/article/view/11285/5038

Digital Feminisms and the Split Subject: Short-circuits through Lacan’s
Four Discourses
Alison Horbury (University of Melbourne)
http://aseestant.ceon.rs/index.php/comman/article/view/11347/5039

A Digital Death Drive? Hubris and Learning in Psychoanalysis and
Cybernetics
Colin John Campbell (York University / OCAD University)
http://aseestant.ceon.rs/index.php/comman/article/view/11241/5037

YouTubers, Online Selves and the Performance Principle: Notes from a
Post-Jungian Perspective
Greg Singh (University of Stirling)
http://aseestant.ceon.rs/index.php/comman/article/view/11414/5040

The Female Target: Digitality, Psychoanalysis and the Gangbang
Diego Semerene (Brown University)
http://aseestant.ceon.rs/index.php/comman/article/view/11218/5036

Chaosmic Spasm: Guattari, Stiegler, Berardi, and the Digital Apocalypse
Mark Featherstone (Keele University)
http://aseestant.ceon.rs/index.php/comman/article/view/11501/5042



With many thanks to the editors of *CM: Journal of Communication and Media*,
particularly Jelena Kleut, for their generous help in realising this issue.



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