RU166: DR MATTHEW FLISFEDER ON ALGORITHMIC DESIRE, SOCIAL MEDIA, PSYCHOANALYSIS, LACAN, MARX

Dr. Matthew Flisfeder is an Associate Professor of Rhetoric and Communications at The University of Winnipeg, where he teaches courses on Communication Theory, Popular Culture, Critical Theories of Discourse and Ideology, and Critical Studies of Social Media. He also teaches Cultural Theory in the MA program in Cultural Studies, and supervises Directed Readings and Special Studies courses on cultural/critical theory, media and communication theory, film and popular culture, social media, videogames, and cyberpunk culture. He is a Faculty Researcher affiliated with the Centre for Research in Cultural Studies (CRiCS) at The University of Winnipeg. He is an Editorial Board member for the journals Rethinking Marxism and TOPIA: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies. https://matthewflisfeder.com His new book is Algorithmic Desire: Toward a New Structuralist Theory of Social Media (Northwestern UP 2021): https://matthewflisfeder.com/algorithmic-desire-toward-a-new-structuralist-theory-of-social-media/ Previous books include Postmodern Theory and Blade Runner (Bloomsbury 2017) and The Symbolic, The Sublime, and Slavoj Žižek’s Theory of Film (Palgrave 2012). I am also the co-editor of Žižek and Media Studies: A Reader (Palgrave Macmillan 2014). https://matthewflisfeder.com Follow him at Twitter: https://twitter.com/MattFlisfeder This episode also available at YouTube: https://youtu.be/8O5Ie5uKBqQ Rendering Unconscious Podcast is hosted by psychoanalyst Dr. Vanessa Sinclair, who interviews psychoanalysts, psychologists, scholars, creative arts therapists, writers, poets, philosophers, artists & other intellectuals about their process, work, world events, the current state of mental health care, politics, culture, the arts & more. http://www.renderingunconscious.org Support the podcast at Patreon. Your support is greatly appreciated! https://www.patreon.com/vanessa23carl Rendering Unconscious Podcast can be found at your favorite podcasting platforms, including: Spotify / iTunes / Soundcloud / Podbean: http://www.renderingunconscious.org/about/ Dr. Sinclair is the author of The Pathways of the Heart (Trapart Books, 2021), Scansion in Psychoanalysis and Art: the Cut in Creation (Routledge, 2020) and Switching Mirrors (Trapart Books, 2016). Dr. Sinclair is the editor of Rendering Unconscious: Psychoanalytic Perspectives, Politics & Poetry (Trapart Books, 2019) Outsider Inpatient: Reflections on Art as Therapy (Trapart Books, 2021) with Dr. Elisabeth Punzi, On Psychoanalysis and Violence: Contemporary Lacanian Perspectives (Routledge, 2018) co-edited with Dr. Manya Steinkoler, and The Fenris Wolf, vol 9 (Trapart, 2017) co-edited with Carl Abrahamsson. http://www.drvanessasinclair.net Visit the main website for more information and links to everything: http://www.renderingunconscious.org Rendering Unconscious: Psychoanalytic Perspectives, Politics & Poetry (Trapart 2019): https://store.trapart.net/details/00000 The song at the end of the episode is “Seems like an eternity” from the album "Conceive ourselves" by Vanessa Sinclair and Pete Murphy from Highbrow Lowlife. https://vanessasinclairpetemurphy.bandcamp.com/album/this-is-voyeurism Many thanks to Carl Abrahamsson, who created the intro and outro music for Rendering Unconscious podcast. https://www.carlabrahamsson.com Image: Algorithmic Desire: Toward a New Structuralist Theory of Social Media (Northwestern University Press, 2021)