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, ...
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