Lydia Liu is Wu Tsun Tam Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Chinese and Comparative Literature in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at Columbia University, New York. In this lecture Professor Liu will examine the psychic life of digital media, exploring digital writing and its ‘fateful’ entanglement with the Freudian unconscious.

Her new book The Freudian Robot: Digital Media and the Future of the Unconscious demonstrates how human-machine relationships can be re-thought at the level of the unconscious. This event is the keynote address of the Translating Culture symposium, held in the School of Modern Languages and Cultures at the University of Nottingham on 15 July.