Laurence A. Rickels
SIGMUND FREUD “FETISHISM” (1927)
- Finding a dissociative pathway to deal with the loss of the penis
- What is it that drives us to technologise the body?
- Media-technologies are only technologies
- What creates a technology is it fetishisation
- Freuds analogises psychoses as technical media
- Post-war psychoanalysis allows psychosis to be habitable
Cryptofeshism
- The advent of rocket – time travel
- Germany trying to dominate a media (air) as the brits did with the sea…
- Psychotechnical research: E.g.: What would the best psychological profile of the pilot?
- Result: The best ‘merging’ of the plane and man happens with the
- The Efficient Soldier – claud isla – new reliance on a psyche that was balance on \
- Zulu time?
- The merger of the pilot with the machine in flight – Metz (1920s)
- The
- Science Faction – marks the beginning of science fiction’s transition into a ‘presupposed reality of the future’ instead of pure fantasy (A rocket was meant to be launched at the opening…)
- Destination Moon (film)
- One of the earlier and most important films of the era was 1950’s widely publicized Destination Moon. It follows a nuclear-powered rocketship carrying four men to the moon, against a background of competition against the Soviets.
- Counting down instead of counting up
- Dark City (1998)
- Dr. Daniel P. Schreber
- Daniel Paul Schreber
- Encapsulated psychosis
How to integrate psychosis into the post-war society – the trajectory from Fritz Lang to American Science Friction to Disneyland aesthetics to Dark City.
Test for being human:
- Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep: The Android Test
- Bladerunner (Descartes)
- Human life is in the predicament of undecidability with regards to the reality of existence
Simulacra – third order of simulacra rests on ultimate simulation
- The capitalist economy and
- Edward Bernays
- Experts hired to talk about the “importance” of having a music room in the home
- propaganda – projecting a simulated version of reality in order to create an absence to fill through commercialisation / consumerism
- Character “Christopher Nobody” commits suicide inside the simulation
- Developing relations to ‘order within simulation’
- The simulated world is also Art Deco
- The transfer helmet is a racing helmet /
Notes
- The interfaces of the alternate reality – helmets, headmounted devices, brain injections – how are transitions made into and out of ‘realities’ take place