Skip to Main Content
 

Global Search Box

 
 
 
 

Files

File List


bgsu1310358442.pdf (1.93 MB)

ETD Abstract Container

Abstract Header

HOMO CYBERIAN DOEDIPUS: ON THE PRIMACY AND POTENTIAL OF TECHNOLOGY, LANGUAGE AND DESIRE

Sundvall, Scott David
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1310358442

Abstract Details

2011, Master of Arts (MA), Bowling Green State University, English/Literature.
This thesis argues that technology is not something to be apprehended from without, but rather is something primary to our proper ontological constitution, and which needs to be re-cognized from within. Following Martin Heidegger’s line of thought, this project finds a primacy in the technology of language; and following Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari’s Capitalism and Schizophrenia project, it also finds a primacy in the technologies of desire (desiring-machines). In this sense, the primacy of language and desire are reflexive: there is no language without the impetus of desire; there is no “desire,” meaningful as such, without the inauguration of language. In addition, this thesis argues that both language and desire are not only primary and primarily technological, but inherently multiplicative. By way of post-structural and deconstructive semiotics, we find the multiplicity of language; and by way of Deleuze and Guattari’s schizoid-rhizomatic-becoming, we find the promise of the multiplicity of desire. Finally, and most importantly, this thesis looks towards the manner in which new media technologies, as well as trans- and post-humanist discourse, have complicated and compounded these theoretical claims and suppositions.
Erin Labbie, PhD (Committee Chair)
Ellen Berry, PhD (Committee Member)
88 p.
Literature
Deleuze and Guattari; rhizome; new media; technology; desire; semiotics; posthuman; internet; schizoanalysis

Recommended Citations

Citations

  • Sundvall, S. D. (2011). HOMO CYBERIAN DOEDIPUS: ON THE PRIMACY AND POTENTIAL OF TECHNOLOGY, LANGUAGE AND DESIRE [Master's thesis, Bowling Green State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1310358442

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Sundvall, Scott. HOMO CYBERIAN DOEDIPUS: ON THE PRIMACY AND POTENTIAL OF TECHNOLOGY, LANGUAGE AND DESIRE. 2011. Bowling Green State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1310358442.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Sundvall, Scott. "HOMO CYBERIAN DOEDIPUS: ON THE PRIMACY AND POTENTIAL OF TECHNOLOGY, LANGUAGE AND DESIRE." Master's thesis, Bowling Green State University, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1310358442

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

bgsu1310358442
1,024
© 2011, all rights reserved.
This open access ETD is published by Bowling Green State University and OhioLINK.