Catalogue Search | MBRL
Are you sure you want to remove the book from the shelf?
{{itemTitle}}
57
result(s) for
"Aphex Twin."
Sort by:
Braindance of the Hikikomori: Towards a Return to Speculative Psychoanalysis
This article takes its point of departure from late Lacan's meditations on the incompatibility of psychoanalysis with Japanese culture due to its non-European linguistic basis. The article argues that this emphasis on language narrowly conceived fails to keep pace with the interconnected, multi-media, all-encompassing nature of the unconscious today. Illustrating this point, the article focuses on the figure of the
hikikomori
: middle-class Japanese youths who have withdrawn from all conventional social contact to indulge exclusively computer-based interactions. Thanks to the overlap with the related figure of the 'Bedroom DJ', the analysis then moves on to the ambient music of Richard D. James, aka Aphex Twin. It argues for the validity of the concept of an 'audio unconscious' distinct from Lacan's unconscious 'structured like a language'. The final part of the article, however, examines one of James's music videos and discerns in it modes of
jouissance
that psychoanalysis can still describe.
Journal Article
Plain Old Common Synth
Mark Jenkins reviews three albums: \"Animal Rights\" by Moby, \"Album: Aphex Twin\" by Aphex Twin and \"Traveling Without Moving\" by Jamiroquai.
Newspaper Article