The book explores the responsibility of psychological and neuropsychological perspectives in relation to the digitalisation of inter-subjectivity. It examines how integral their theories and models have been to the development of digital technologies by combining theoretical and critical work of leading thinkers.

Jan De Vos holds an MA in psychology and a PhD in philosophy and is currently affiliated to Ghent University and University College Ghent, Belgium. He is author of several monographs, amongst others, The Metamorphoses of the Brain. Neurologisation and its Discontents (2016) and Psychologisation in times of Globalisation (2012).

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PART 1: INTRODUCTION

Chapter 1: The digital death drive

PART 2: LEARNING MACHINES: DIGITALISATION AND ITS PSY-ANTECEDENTS

Chapter 2: Alan Turing, Artificial Intelligence, and its Psy-Fantasies

Chapter 3: Cybernetics and the War of the Psychologies

Chapter 4: Towards a psy-critique of the digitalisation of intersubjectivity: two case-studies

PART 3: EDUCATING THE PEOPLE: DIGITAL DEADLOCKS

Chapter 5: Digitalising education and parenting: the end of interpellation?

Chapter 6: The Digital (no)Future of Education

Chapter 7: Digital mass effects

PART 4: CONCLUSIONS

Chapter 8: What digitality should not think. A guide to imagine the end of the world

Index