Interface Fantasy

Introducing a psychoanalytic theory of cyberspace -- The question concerning technology and desire -- Fantasy at the interface -- A freudian view on cyberspace -- Fantasy as design -- Designing presence with metaphors -- Channels of perception : the imagination and the understanding -- Mind the gap!. Technological eros -- Philosophy of technology : substantialism and constructivism -- Technology beyond conscious intentions -- Technology : from means to media of desire -- Technological eros and the seduction of the essential copy -- A desire for simulation -- The technologization of human virtuality -- Introducing virtuality -- Virtuality : a historical overview -- Computer virtual reality : interactivity and immersion -- The real and the virtual in digital technologies : four models -- Virtualization (i) : language and law -- Pierre Levy : characteristics of virtualization -- Forces of virtualization : language, law, and technology -- Language as virtualization : other scenes -- The retroaction of a real time -- Law as the virtualization of a natural force -- The unconscious is outside -- Virtualization (ii) : technology -- The digital revolution : from object to interface -- Digitization and the mind's schemes of representation -- Technological fiction : invocational media -- Fantasy and the virtual mind -- Information wants to be free -- Modern representation and the transparency of the screen -- Post-modern simulation and the opacity of the screen -- Deconstructing signs and subjects : semiotics and digitization -- Towards a lacanian theory of the subject in the mode of Information -- Codes and content : Descartes, Wiener, and Lacan -- Descartes : causality and imagination -- Cartesian perspectivism and affectivity -- Wiener and Lacan : the logic of cyborgs -- Cybernetics and embodiment -- Media of fantasy -- Information and meaning -- A lacanian third wave cybernetics codes incorporated -- Fantasy as the stuff of the virtual subject -- Interactive environments (i) : fantasy as a subjective-objective space -- The imaginary space of cyborg subjec.