Erotic Pleasure and Technological Mastery

An excerpt from The Comedy of Computation: Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Obsolescence

Slavoj Žižek argues that gaming and virtual reality programs figure the computer as “a consistent other, stepping into the structural position of an intersubjective partner.” This claim follows on the heels of a reference to Jacques Lacan’s diagnosis in an infamous koan about the impossibility of sexual relations. For Lacan, ...
Read More
Erotic Pleasure and Technological Mastery

What Computers Can Explain

About how humans learn

_____ The mystery of learning is as old as philosophy: how does the nearly insensate newborn become, within just a few years, a walking, talking, intelligent being? In his new book entitled How We Learn: Why Brains Learn Better Than Any Machine . . . for Now, Stanislas Dehaene illuminates the great ...
Read More
What Computers Can Explain