@inbook{0348f28ac6d84dd29217f3bc72064ef7,
title = "Digital Tectonics and Cinematic Intimacy: An Epidemiological/Psychoanalytic Perspective ",
abstract = "This chapter will develop the basic premise of a paper delivered at the 2021 Irish Psychoanalytic Film Festival entitled “When the disease is misrecognised as the cure: Screen Contagion in the Shadow of COVID-19{"}. The aim, building on Ian Parker{\textquoteright}s concluding remarks at the event, is to explore - by way of analytical interventions into the field - the notion of cinematic intimacy in the context of COVID-19 and the lockdown experience. The working hypothesis is that the increased proximity to screens and images during the pandemic is a symptom - in the fundamental Lacanian sense - of a more serious screen contagion at work in the shadows of COVID-19. Using an innovative combination of psychoanalytic and epidemiological tools, this chapter attempts to analyse this phenomenon at the level of what I term the Tektonic Virus: a form of algorithmic desire fuelling the viral spread of a new mode of digitised subjectivity.",
keywords = "Cinema, Covid 19, Psychoanalysis, Zizek",
author = "Robert Kilroy",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2024 selection and editorial matter, Carol Owens and Sarah Meehan O{\textquoteright}Callaghan; individual chapters, the contributors.",
year = "2023",
month = jan,
day = "1",
doi = "10.4324/9781003272069-3",
language = "English (Ireland)",
isbn = "9781032223209",
series = "Lines of the Symbolic ",
publisher = "Routledge",
pages = "27--45",
editor = "Carol Owens and {Meehan O'Callaghan}, {Sarah }",
booktitle = "Psychoanalysis and the Small Screen",
address = "United Kingdom",
}
