The freudian robot by Lydia Liu

Introduction:
Freudian robot: any networked being that embodies the feedback loop of human-machine simulacra and cannot free her/him/itself from the cybernetic unconscious is Freudian robt
Can human beings be Freudian robot?

Does the logic of reciprocity compel human beings to imitate their machines just as much as the machines are built to resemble them, keeping an infinite feedback loop of simulacra or dopperlganger in place?

Do human beings become masters of their machines, or their slaves?
both wrong    prosethetic argument that the physiological deficiencies of the human species are in need of prosthetic extension through technology   is wrong
because of the transformative role on human and the human-machine entanglement

argues against Haraway
the idea of cyborg or transhumance often obfuscates the political and psychic foundations of human-machine entanglement
the political consequences of an emerging society of Freudian robots

how information theory and digital media reframe the problem of unconscious between human-machine simulacra.
digital writing

chapter 6 the missed rendezvous bet critical theory and cybernetics
Frankfurt school      semantic approach of language
                      language -- consciousness     logicentrism
As an alternative to the philosophy of consciousness, Habermas put forward a theory of communicative action to emphasize intersubjectivity and privilege linguistic philosophy.
His theory of communicative rationality shares the normative stance of pre-World War II theorists of language and meaning. He restaged the battle agains the eruption of irrationality in social interactions by proposing a normative model of communicative action based on a semantic understanding of language.

But telecommunication technologies from telegraph to information technology and satellite communication systems.... are pushing the philosophical consideration of sense and nonsense beyond the realms of semantics, speech act theory, theories of meaning, and all other theoretical models that are premised on the face-to-face verbal communication between a human speaker and a human listener. Taken in a cybernetic register— as Lacan has demonstrated to us — communication is fundamentally schizophrenic.