Smart screens and transformative ways of looking: Towards a therapeutics of desire

In this article, I set up a Heideggerian framework of research in order to investigate the phenomenon of looking at the smartphone screen, focusing especially on the desire to look, which I see as intricately connected with the desire to know and the desire to be. With a clear phenomenological dispo...

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Published in:Educational philosophy and theory 2019-12, Vol.51 (14), p.1423-1433
Main Author: Kouppanou, Anna
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Connectedness
Desire
Educational Philosophy
Educational Practices
Educational Theories
Handheld Devices
Human Body
Individual Development
Learning Processes
Phenomenology
Psychological Patterns
Self Concept
Smartphone screen
Smartphones
Telecommunications
transformation
Transformative Learning
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Summary:In this article, I set up a Heideggerian framework of research in order to investigate the phenomenon of looking at the smartphone screen, focusing especially on the desire to look, which I see as intricately connected with the desire to know and the desire to be. With a clear phenomenological disposition, supplemented by a deconstructive look via Giorgio Agamben and Bernard Stiegler, I turn to Ovid's Metamorphoses, and especially to his myth of Narcissus, and to Lacan's theory of the formation of the I, concluding that desire necessitates the split of the self, the self's misrecognition in an image or in a medium or in a screen, and the subsequent reorganisation of the body, which ultimately allows for the self's metamorphosis. After this, I discuss specifically the phenomenon of looking at the smartphone screen, emphasising that in an age that the presence of screens and of technologically produced images increases exponentially, we cannot ignore this phenomenon's implications for educational theories and practices. Rather, we need to orient our investigations towards the interconnectedness of looking, knowing, and desiring, underlining therefore the need for an educational focus on the ways we learn to see and on the ways we learn to desire.
ISSN:0013-1857
1469-5812
DOI:10.1080/00131857.2018.1546171