| Title: | Dreaming in the digital age : thoughts on the tecnological pharmacon |
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| Authors: | ID Krebs, Victor J. (Author) |
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| Files: |  URL - Source URL, visit https://doi.org/10.35469/poligrafi.2023.404
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| Language: | English |
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| Typology: | 1.01 - Original Scientific Article |
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| Organization: |  ZRS Koper - Science and Research Centre Koper
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| Abstract: | This article explores one way of understanding how digital media are affecting our ability to distinguish reality from fantasy, by reading Bernard Stiegler’s diagno-sis of our current cultural crisis, alongside Wilfred Bion’s dream theory. The cen-tral claim of the paper is that we can understand the technological pharmakon, its both poisonous and therapeutic nature, in terms of Bion’s definition of dreaming, as the commerce between consciousness and the unconscious negotiated by the “alpha function”. Understanding how the digital impacts our capacity to dream provides us with a tool to counteract its toxicity and to combat the thanatic im-pulse triggered by technological power. from a binocular point of view – both from Stiegler’s perspective of our tech-nical or “organological” evolution and from Bion’s perspective on the constitution of reality in dreaming – we can begin to see more clearly how to modulate our technological drive, in order to prevent the pharmakon from short-circuiting the very psychic function necessary to distinguish between reality and illusion. The paper ends with a discussion of the algorithmic effects on the living imagination in support of this contention. |
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| Keywords: | digital age, dreaming, Bion, Stiegler, pharmakon, philosophy, psychoanalysis |
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| Publication status: | Published |
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| Publication version: | Version of Record |
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| Publication date: | 20.12.2023 |
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| Year of publishing: | 2023 |
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| Number of pages: | str. 59-82 |
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| Numbering: | Vol. 28, no. 109/110 |
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| PID: | 20.500.12556/DiRROS-18914  |
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| UDC: | 159.963.3:004.946 |
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| ISSN on article: | 1318-8828 |
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| DOI: | 10.35469/poligrafi.2023.404 |
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| COBISS.SI-ID: | 195166979 |
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| Copyright: | The Authors |
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| Publication date in DiRROS: | 13.05.2024 |
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