AcknowledgmentsList of Figures and TablesINTRODUCTION: The Psychic Life of Digital Media1 Where Is the Writing of Digital Media?Why Civilization MattersPostmodernity and New MediaThree Conceptual LacunaeFundamental Challenge to Literary TheoryThe Techne of the Unconscious2 The Invention of Printed EnglishHow the English Alphabet Gained a New LetterWhat Is Printed English?The Genetic Code and GrammatologyThe Ideographic Turn of the Phonetic AlphabetThe Number Game in the Empires of the Mind3 Sense and Nonsense in the Psychic MachineFinnegans Wake: A Hypermnesiac Machine?iSpace: Joyce's Paper WoundsSchizoprenic Writing at Bell LabsThe Cybernetics GroupThe Psychic Machine4 The Cybernetic UnconsciousFrench Theory or American Theory?Lacan Reading Poe: "The Seminar on 'The Purloined Letter'"Les Jeux: Game and Play on the Symbolic ChainThe Cybernetic UnconsciousReturn to Sender5 The Freudian RobotThe Uncanny in the AutomatonThe Psychic Life of MediaWhat Is the Medium of das Unheimliche?The Uncanny ValleyThe Neurotic MachineMinsky and the Cognitive Unconscious6 The Future of the UnconsciousThe Missed Rendezvous between Critical Theory and CyberneticsThe Ideology MachineOur Game with the Little "Letters"Works CitedIndex
Lydia H. Liu (Author)
Lydia H. Liu is W. T. Tam Professor in the Humanities in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures and Director of Graduate Studies at the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society at Columbia University. She is the author or editor of seven books in English and Chinese, including, most recently The Clash of Empires: The Invention of China in Modern World Making.