[ecrea] Digital Media, Psychoanalysis and the Subject - CM special issue published

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Digital Media, Psychoanalysis and the Subject*
***Editors: Jacob Johanssen (University of Westminster), Steffen Krüger 
(University of Oslo)*



We are very pleased to announce the publication of the special issue 
Digital Media, Psychoanalysis and the Subject, published by the open 
access journal /CM: Communication and Media/.

This is the first-ever special issue of a media and communication 
journal that addresses questions of subjectivity, digital media and the 
Internet with a focus on psychoanalytic theory.

The contributing authors seek to reassess and reinvigorate 
psychoanalytic thinking in media and communication studies. They 
undertake this reassessment with a particular focus on the question of 
what psychoanalytic concepts, theories and modes of inquiry can 
contribute to the study of contemporary digital media.

The collection features a broad range of psychoanalytic approaches - 
from Freudian, via Kleinian and relational, to Lacanian and Jungian - 
and covers a wide range of issues - from the uses (and abuses) of the 
mobile phone and other digital devices, the circulation of traumatising 
images and anxiety-inducing tracking apps, via hysteric feminist 
discourses, digital fetishes and the exploitation of YouTube 
celebrities, to the meaning of the gangbang in a priapistic media 
culture and this culture's emptying-out of meaning towards its climax in 
a cosmic spasm...

We hope that colleagues will find this collection informative and 
engaging and a helpful resource for their own work.


*Table of Contents and Download Links:*

Thinking (with) the Unconscious in Media and Communication Studies: 
Introduction to the Special Issue
Steffen Krüger (University of Oslo) and Jacob Johanssen (University of 
Westminster)

http://aseestant.ceon.rs/index.php/comman/article/view/13131/5045 
<http://aseestant.ceon.rs/index.php/comman/article/view/13131/5045>


Framing the Mobile Phone: The Psychopathologies of an Everyday Object
Iain MacRury and Candida Yates (Bournemouth University)

http://aseestant.ceon.rs/index.php/comman/article/view/11517/5044 
<http://aseestant.ceon.rs/index.php/comman/article/view/11517/5044>


'"If you show your real face, you’ll lose 10 000 followers” – The Gaze 
of the Other and Transformations of Shame in Digitalized Relationships
Vera King (Sigmund-Freud-Institute & Goethe-University)

http://aseestant.ceon.rs/index.php/comman/article/view/11504/5043 
<http://aseestant.ceon.rs/index.php/comman/article/view/11504/5043>

Media Traumatization, Symbolic Wounds and Digital Culture
Allen Meek (Massey University)
http://aseestant.ceon.rs/index.php/comman/article/view/11442/5041 
<http://aseestant.ceon.rs/index.php/comman/article/view/11442/5041>

The Other Self in Free Fall: Anxiety and Automated Tracking Applications
Christopher Gutierrez (McGill University)
http://aseestant.ceon.rs/index.php/comman/article/view/11285/5038 
<http://aseestant.ceon.rs/index.php/comman/article/view/11285/5038>

Digital Feminisms and the Split Subject: Short-circuits through Lacan’s 
Four Discourses
Alison Horbury (University of Melbourne)
http://aseestant.ceon.rs/index.php/comman/article/view/11347/5039 
<http://aseestant.ceon.rs/index.php/comman/article/view/11347/5039>

A Digital Death Drive? Hubris and Learning in Psychoanalysis and Cybernetics
Colin John Campbell (York University / OCAD University)
http://aseestant.ceon.rs/index.php/comman/article/view/11241/5037 
<http://aseestant.ceon.rs/index.php/comman/article/view/11241/5037>

YouTubers, Online Selves and the Performance Principle: Notes from a 
Post-Jungian Perspective
Greg Singh (University of Stirling)
http://aseestant.ceon.rs/index.php/comman/article/view/11414/5040 
<http://aseestant.ceon.rs/index.php/comman/article/view/11414/5040>

The Female Target: Digitality, Psychoanalysis and the Gangbang
Diego Semerene (Brown University)
http://aseestant.ceon.rs/index.php/comman/article/view/11218/5036 
<http://aseestant.ceon.rs/index.php/comman/article/view/11218/5036>

Chaosmic Spasm: Guattari, Stiegler, Berardi, and the Digital Apocalypse
Mark Featherstone (Keele University)
http://aseestant.ceon.rs/index.php/comman/article/view/11501/5042 
<http://aseestant.ceon.rs/index.php/comman/article/view/11501/5042>

With many thanks to the editors of /CM: Journal of Communication and 
Media/, particularly Jelena Kleut, for their generous help in realising 
this issue.




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