Rendering Unconscious welcomes Bonni Rambatan and Jacob Johanssen to the podcast!

Bonni Rambatan is an independent scholar and researcher based in Jakarta, Indonesia, as well as a writer and artist for various comics, novels, films, installations, and other media. They co-founded and currently runs a comic book company, NaoBun, focusing on making progressive thoughts available to young readers. They started and edited the anthology Cyborg Subjects: Discourses on Digital Culture with Jacob Johanssen (CreateSpace, 2013). Their research interests include Lacanian psychoanalysis, media studies, literary and art criticism, Japanese studies, philosophy, and critical theory. For research and artistic projects, their affiliations include The Japan Foundation, the Vienna-based art-technology-philosophy group monochrom, as well as various art and literary institutions in Indonesia. Follow them at Twitter: https://twitter.com/Bonnibel_R

Jacob Johanssen is Senior Lecturer in Communications at St. Mary’s University (London, UK). He is the author of Psychoanalysis and Digital Culture: Audiences, Social Media, and Big Data (Routledge, 2019); Fantasy, Online Misogyny and the Manosphere (Routledge, 2021) and Cyborg Subjects: Discourses on Digital Culture, edited with Bonni Rambatan (CreateSpace, 2013). His research interests include psychoanalysis and digital media, sexuality and digital media, affect theories, psychosocial studies, and critical theory. He is Co-Editor of the Counterspace section of the journal Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society. He sits on the executive committee of the Association for Psychosocial Studies (APS). He is a Founder Scholar of the British Psychoanalytic Council (BPC). Follow him at Twitter: https://twitter.com/Jacob_PhD

Their book is Event Horizon: Sexuality, Politics, Online Culture and the Limits of Capitalism: https://www.johnhuntpublishing.com/zer0-books/our-books/event-horizon-sexuality-politics-culture

This episode also available at YouTube: https://youtu.be/gdS_OZTHGFY

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Rendering Unconscious Podcast is hosted by psychoanalyst Dr. Vanessa Sinclair: http://www.drvanessasinclair.net

Rendering Unconscious: Psychoanalytic Perspectives, Politics & Poetry (Trapart 2019): https://store.trapart.net/details/00000

The song at the end of the episode is “To be back with you” by Vanessa Sinclair and Val Denham from the album "Message 23". https://vanessasinclair.bandcamp.com

Many thanks to Carl Abrahamsson, who created the intro and outro music for Rendering Unconscious podcast. https://www.carlabrahamsson.com

Image of EVENT HORIZON: https://www.johnhuntpublishing.com/zer0-books/our-books/event-horizon-sexuality-politics-culture