Lacan and the Posthuman

Svitlana Matviyenko is an Assistant Professor of Critical Media Analysis in the School of Communication of Simon Fraser University, Canada. She researches psychology of users’ interaction with the web to theorize the networking drive, user complicity and practices of resistance.Judith Roof is William Shakespeare Chair in English at Rice University, USA and an attorney-at-law. She is author of seven monographs and essays to date on topics ranging from psychoanalysis and popular culture, to cinema, modern drama, legal studies, feminist theory, sexuality, narrative theory and comedy.

• Chapter 1: Introduction; Svitlana Matviyenko & Judith Roof.- Chapter 2: The Obscene Object of Post/humanism; Louis Armand.- Chapter 3: From Law to Code: Posthumanism as Sinthome; Judith Roof.- Chapter 4: “A Corporal Radioscopy”: Lacan, the Baroque, and the Posthuman; Allan Pero.- Chapter 5: Lacan’s Cybernetic Theory of Causality: Repetition and the Unconscious in Source Code; Colin Wright.- Chapter 6: Lacan ‘Stoffed’ with Insects: or Posthuman-Insectoid-Cyberfeminist-Materiality?; Benjamin Woodard.- Chapter 7: Graphocentrism in Psychoanalysis; Svitlana Matviyenko.- Chapter 8: Lacan’s Drive and Genetic Posthumans: The Example of Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake; John Johnston.- Chapter 9: Posthuman Desire: The One-All-Alone in Her, ExMachina, and Lars and the Real Girl; Nancy Gillespie.- Chapter 10: Merzbow and the Noise of Object Oriented Perversion; Scott Wilson.- Chapter 11: Melancholy Objects: If Stones Were Lacanian; Timothy Morton.