Teleologics of the Snail

Theory, Culture and Society 26 (2-3):33-45 (2009)
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Abstract

In this article, I would like to show that, concerning this era of ubiquitous technology and its teleologics, the stakes concern the constitution of a new milieu of psychic and collective individuation, which is at least as radically new as the writing of language was in its time; second, I attempt to show that what is at stake relates to the way technology changes the télos, that is, the rule of ends which shape the social organization of collective desire as a system of care and remedies; and, third, I argue that this era requires a new libidinal economy, if we admit that there can be no télos without desire. I will argue that new ubiquitous digital networks operating as new technical associated milieus have fundamental effects for symbolic and psychical associated milieus, and thus for new ways of being.

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Technics, Media, Teleology.C. Venn, R. Boyne, J. Phillips & R. Bishop - 2007 - Theory, Culture and Society 24 (7-8):334-341.

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