The astounding omnipresence of the virtual in contemporary consciousness is radically restructuring our psychology, changing our societies and culture, and having profound effects on who we are, how we behave with one another, and on the kind of world we are inhabiting. The speed and instantaneousness of digital communication radically unsettles both time and space. “Real time” and “virtual space” are new categories in our existence that introduce dramatic transformations in our form of life. Changing our very understanding of knowledge and ignorance, of subjectivity and objectivity, digital technology is reforming our needs and interests, affecting all areas of human experience.
These transformations have been so rapid that we are only now beginning to notice and slowly assimilate their psychic effect. So much of it still remains unconscious, that it becomes important not only to attend to what seem to be the digital’s very clear perils, but also to try to discern what may be its still unknown or unseen potential. Indeed, we might be witnessing an enhancement and extension of our existence beyond anything we are as yet, able to imagine.
Join us for this complimentary Author’s Talk with Richard Frankel and Victor J. Krebbs, authors of the newly released, Human Virtuality and Digital Life (Routledge 2022) as they discuss themes related to split-screen lives and dissociation, unconscious defenses and the digital as escapism, the digital world as unleashing the potentiality of the cultural unconscious, and more!
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