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The fateful entanglements of psychoanalysis, cybernetics and digital media. But how did writing itself make digital media possible in the first place. This chapter examines the role of automata in psychoanalytic discourse by focusing on the problem of the freudian uncanny. The invention of china in modern world making 2004. Untold story human rights world war ii professor liu is a leading contemporary theorist, a scholar of modern chinese literature and comparative literature, and a specialist in global history and modern thought. Her published books in english include the freudian robot. As someone who trained in comparative literature, i have been taught to focus on literary text and ignore science and technology.
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