Search for dissertations about: "lacan technology"

Found 2 swedish dissertations containing the words lacan technology.

2. 1. The Other Side of Technology: Lacan and the Desire for the Purity of Non-Being

   Author : Carl Cederström; Institutionen för informatik; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Lacan; psychoanalysis; information systems research; critique; fantasy;

   Abstract : Against the deeply ingrained belief that technology is instrumental and neutral, this thesis argues that our relation to technology is inextricably bound up with fantasies. But what is the nature of these fantasies and where do we find them? Are they strictly reserved to the domain of Science Fiction, or can we also find them in more mundane contexts, like the business organization? These are some of the central questions of the present study. READ MORE

4. 2. The Vicissitudes of Corruption : Degeneration - transgression - jouissance

   Author : Thomas Taro Lennerfors; Claes Gustafsson; Thomas Polesie; KTH; []
   Keywords : TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; Industrial organisation; administration and economics; Industriell organisation; administration och ekonomi;

   Abstract : In a time when corruption is receiving increasing media coverage and when many claim to wage a war on corruption, this book brings up the need for a problematisation and an increased understanding of the different manifestations – the vicissitudes – of corruption and also what measures are taken against it. The book advances the claim that corruption is tightly related to modernity and particularly to a transgression of the public / private dichotomy. READ MORE