Film and Visual Studies: The Digital Unconscious
A special issue of Arts (ISSN 2076-0752).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 1 June 2025 | Viewed by 232
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Serving as Guest Editor for a Special Issue of Film and Visual Studies, I invite submissions of papers addressing the topic of The Digital Unconscious. A word of explanation: in 1915, Sigmund Freud published “The Unconscious”, now a point of reference in the legacy of psychoanalysis and the “return to Freud” that France witnessed in the years 1960-1990. Taken as what is other, in its wake, the Unconscious marked a panoply of disciplines: politics, aesthetics, literature, contemporary art, historiography, film theory, and philosophy. Today, with the impact of digital technology and artificial intelligence, visual studies, seemingly drifting away from psychoanalysis, are concentrated on cognition and cognitive mapping. However, like subjectivity, the Unconscious has neither disappeared nor simply “gone away”. The essays in this Special Issue of Film and Visual Studies aim to show how and why the Unconscious, timeworn as it may seem, has uncommon agency and force in visual arts in the digital age.
Prof. Dr. Tom Conley
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- psychoanalysis
- visual studies
- digital process
- media
- mediation
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