The Social Sinthome,
2023
Pomona College
The Social Sinthome, Ryan Engley
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
Much of the critical discourse on social media misidentifies its problematic features as bugs, or problems to solve. Supposed solutions to these problems tend to focus on individual actions. We should delete the apps, own our own data, never click on recommended videos, and realize that we are the product. But if predatory algorithms succeed by individuating people—selling people “choice” and “options” as it harvests user data—then an entire online ecosystem arranged through the logic of that design can neither be meaningfully challenged nor effectively understood at the level of the individual alone. Transformative action addressing social media can only …
Everybody Wants To Be A Fascist Online: Psychoanalysis And The Digital Architecture Of Fascism,
2023
Goldsmiths College, University of London
Everybody Wants To Be A Fascist Online: Psychoanalysis And The Digital Architecture Of Fascism, Anthony Faramelli, Imogen Piper
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
Félix Guattari and Franco Berardi have both argued that media ecologies and psychic ecologies are intimately intertwined and as such, any exploration of the collective unconscious must engage with how the mind is formed with and through media. This understanding of networks of interdependence necessitates an exploration of how platformization has impacted users” collective psyche. Drawing from psychosocial theory, psychoanalysis and the work of Félix Guattari, this article analizes the micropolitics of desire of digital platforms, with an explicit focus on how algorithmic structures amplify extreme Right content, allowing fascisms to metastasis throughout digital spaces. It will first examine the …
Stalking Oneself: The Fantasmatic Intersubjectivity Of Google,
2023
Simon Fraser University
Stalking Oneself: The Fantasmatic Intersubjectivity Of Google, Alois Sieben
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
This essay reads fictional and non-fictional accounts of digital stalking as signals of larger changes in intersubjectivity itself caused by Google. Most social media platforms trap users in imaginary relations, in which the other is encountered as a complete profile, but Google allows the searcher to locate an absence in the other in the form of a missing search result. As will be shown in an analysis of two contemporary novels whose first-person narrations center around Google-stalking, Caroline Kepnes’s You (2014) and Olivia Sudjic’s Sympathy (2017), Google’s mode of intersubjectivity amounts to an endless tunnel with no light at its …
Lacan And The Algorithm,
2023
Simon Fraser University
Lacan And The Algorithm, Clint Burnham
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
Exploring the development of algorithms in Lacanian theory, specifically the "R schema" in the 1950s, I argue that psychoanalysis, read through contemporary debates about the "algorithmic cult" of Netflix and other avatars of popular culture, can be said to reveal the inhuman, machinic essence of subjectivity. The etiology of algorithms, mathemes, and other formulae and diagrams in Lacan’s oeuvre has been under-studied, in part because for some readers they are not as attractive as his more bravura flourishes of word play as exegetical excess, and in part because they derive largely from the ‘hard’ structuralist moment of his work in …
Platform Psychoanalysis: What Does The Algorithm Want?,
2023
University of Winnipeg
Platform Psychoanalysis: What Does The Algorithm Want?, Matthew Flisfeder
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
No abstract provided.
When Sexuality Becomes Healing: An Interview With Elsbeth Fraanje On Her Documentary Sexual Healing,
2023
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
When Sexuality Becomes Healing: An Interview With Elsbeth Fraanje On Her Documentary Sexual Healing, Johan Roeland
Journal of Religion & Film
This is an interview with Elsbeth Fraanje, the director of Sexual Healing.
Sexual Healing,
2023
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Sexual Healing, Johan Roeland
Journal of Religion & Film
This is a film review of Sexual Healing (2022) directed by Elsbeth Fraanje.
Good Grief,
2023
University of Nebraska Omaha
Good Grief, John C. Lyden
Journal of Religion & Film
This is a film review of Good Grief (2023), directed by Rob Sharp.
The Pod Generation,
2023
Truman State University
The Pod Generation, Dereck Daschke
Journal of Religion & Film
This is a film review of The Pod Generation (2023), directed by Sophie Barthes.
Plan C,
2023
Truman State University
Plan C, Dereck Daschke
Journal of Religion & Film
This is a film review of PLAN C (2023), directed by Tracy Droz Tragos.
Fairyland,
2023
University of Kent at Canterbury - U.K.
Fairyland, Christopher R. Deacy
Journal of Religion & Film
This is a film review of Fairyland (2023), directed by Andrew Durham.
Smoke Sauna Sisterhood,
2023
Truman State University
Smoke Sauna Sisterhood, Dereck Daschke
Journal of Religion & Film
This is a film review of Smoke Sauna Sisterhood (2023), directed by Anna Hints.
Divinity,
2023
Truman State University
Divinity, Dereck Daschke
Journal of Religion & Film
This is a film review of Divinity (2023), directed by Eddie Alcazar.
Cat Person,
2023
University of Kent at Canterbury - U.K.
Cat Person, Christopher R. Deacy
Journal of Religion & Film
This is a film review of Cat Person (2023), directed by Susanna Fogel.
Our Males And Females,
2023
University of Nebraska at Omaha
Our Males And Females, William L. Blizek, Monica Blizek
Journal of Religion & Film
This is a film review of Our Males and Females (2023), directed by Ahmad Alyaseer.
History And Politics Of Medication Abortion In The United States And The Rise Of Telemedicine And Self-Managed Abortion,
2023
Smith College
History And Politics Of Medication Abortion In The United States And The Rise Of Telemedicine And Self-Managed Abortion, Carrie N. Baker
Study of Women, Gender, & Sexuality: Faculty Publications
This article examines the decades-long campaign to increase access to abortion pills in the United States, including advocates’ work to win U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval of mifepristone and misoprostol for abortion, the continuing restrictions on mifepristone and the multiple strategies advocates have pursued to challenge these restrictions, including lobbying the FDA to remove the restrictions, obtaining a limited research exemption from FDA restrictions and suing the FDA during the COVID pandemic. The article pays particular attention to influence of research conducted on the safety and efficacy of medication abortion as well as research on the impact of increased …
The Persian Version,
2023
University of Nebraska Omaha
The Persian Version, John C. Lyden
Journal of Religion & Film
This is a film review of The Persian Version (2023), directed by Maryam Keshavarz.
Mamacruz,
2023
Truman State University
Mamacruz, Dereck Daschke
Journal of Religion & Film
This is a film review of MAMACRUZ (2023), directed by Patricia Ortega.
Other People's Children,
2023
University of Kent at Canterbury - U.K.
Other People's Children, Christopher R. Deacy
Journal of Religion & Film
This is a film review of Other People's Children (2022), directed by Rebecca Zlotowski.
Birth/Rebirth,
2023
University of Kent at Canterbury - U.K.
Birth/Rebirth, Christopher R. Deacy
Journal of Religion & Film
This is a film review of birth/rebirth (2023), directed by Laura Moss.
