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    Lacan’s Cybernetic Theory of Causality: Repetition and the Unconscious in Duncan Jones’ Source Code

    Wright’s chapter outlines how Lacan’s early engagement with cybernetics and game theory informed his psychoanalytic theory of causality. At times, Lacan seems close to a avant la lettre in his emphasis on th...

    Colin Wright in Lacan and the Posthuman (2018)

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    Perversion and the Law: From Sade to the ‘Spanner Case’ and Beyond

    Interrogating the relation between the law and changing notions of perversion, in society and in Lacanian theory, Colin Wright observes that modernity is marked by a progressive intertwining of perversion and ...

    Colin Wright in Perversion Now! (2017)

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    Introduction: Map** Perversion in the Contemporary World

    A child is seated on a throne, imagining that he is king and master of all he beholds; at the same time his unconscious fantasy appears on a screen, but in another place. With no hint of subtlety, this is foll...

    Diana Caine, Xavier Fourtou, Gyorgyi Koman, Hephzibah Rendle-Short in Perversion Now! (2017)