Does the Internet Have an Unconscious? Slavoj Žižek and Digital Culture & Algorithmic Desire: Toward a New Structuralist Theory of Social Media

This review reads two recent books that approach the Internet through Marxist and psychoanalytic theory, Matthew Flisfeder’s Algorithmic Desire: Toward a New Structuralist Theory of Social Media Clint Burnham’s Does Have an Unconscious? Slavoj Žižek Digital Culture. The latter allows us to grasp structured discourse produces subject, while former subject’s excess signals lack in as social structure.