ABSTRACT
Lacan’s ‘problem’ encapsulates the ambivalence most of us register towards technological progress. While technology allows humanity to develop more constructive ways of engaging with the world, it also extends the capacity for domination – whether it be nature or simply those who are different. Technology can allow us to realise our needs; however it can also reconstruct those needs so that aspirations towards human progress realise themselves within a technocratic, antihuman paradigm – in the ‘service of the machine’. This book is about how to come to terms with this ambivalence.
