Dr. Peter Bloom Lecturer in Organisational Behaviour School of Business and Economics Swansea University Computing Fantasies: Psychologically Approaching Identity and Ideology in the Computational Age Popularly and scholarly, the new millennium is believed to have ushered in a new epoch centred on the seemingly ubiquitous presence of computers, and ethics of the computational, in all spheres of social and personal life. This “computational turn” necessitates a re-thinking of established concepts of identity and ideological dominance. More precisely, how has this shift altered actor’s desires, therefore sense of self, and what does this reveal about present forms of critical hegemony? This work deploys the Lacanian psychoanalytic concept of fantasy for understanding this novel “computational subject”, investigating the shared utopian visions structuring contemporary aspirations and psychologically stabilizing identity. Specifically, it isolates two emerging “computational fantasies” – the first, “computational man”, revolving around desires to gain personal and social wholeness through continually improving our computational ability and the second, “computational humanity”, linked to the promise that computing technology will enhance our ability to enjoy uniquely “human” needs of emotional health. These fantasies represent, despite differences, the evolving legitimisation of capitalism ideologically, and its associated values such as consumerism and privatisation, in the modern era.

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