The Child and the Digital: Queer Theory, Psychoanalysis and New Media

The child as victim and master of digital technology; the trans-national child; the fetishized child; the queer child as a redundancy; the child as site of futurity and panic, anxiety and eroticism...We will explore the intersections and frictions between queer theory and psychoanalysis in the face of new media through the figure of the child. What's the role of Desire in the formation of new media objects, i.e. toys for adults and children alike? We will develop a strong literacy in psychoanalytic and queer theory as we utilize digital technologies to complicate them.