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Informationen zum Autor Fred Botting is Professor in the Institute for Cultural Research, Lancaster University. Klappentext Taking psychoanalysis into cyberspace, Sex, machines and navels develops an innovative theoretical perspective on the relationship between bodies and machines to offer a focused re-examination of notions of desire, metaphor, sexed identity and difference and the process of technological transformation. Zusammenfassung Taking psychoanalysis into cyberspace! Sex! machines and navels develops an innovative theoretical perspective on the relationship between bodies and machines to offer a focused re-examination of notions of desire! metaphor! sexed identity and difference and the process of technological transformation. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements1. NavelsNavel-gazing The question of the navel2. Lacan's navelPsychoanalysis through the navel?The navel of the dreamReading navels The navel's return3. Jokes and their relation to postmodernismThe joke that is not oneThe navel of the joke Jokes and their relation to the OtherPostmodernism's navelPaternal metaphors? 4. History, holes and thingsHistory's navelNatural history and the navelHoles and thingsWombs, texts, hysteryRepetition, revolution, drive 5. Of meat and the matrixFuture history and the navelPlugging into the One Other matrix, other meatNavel, image, screen 6. Romance of the machineNavels in the machineGoing nodalBibliographyIndex
