Is there a Doctor in the House? Psychoanalysis and the Discourse of the Posthuman.
This article uses a Lacanian framework both to map types of posthuman discourse that shape the debates around science, technology and the fate of the human, and to advocate a more psychoanalytic framing of these debates. It identifies three dominant posthumanisms: 'doomsday', 'celebratory' and 'crit...
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