Acknowledgements
1. Navels
Navel-gazing
The question of the navel
2. Lacan’s navel
Psychoanalysis through the navel?
The navel of the dream
Reading navels
The navel’s return
3. Jokes and their relation to postmodernism
The joke that is not one
The navel of the joke
Jokes and their relation to the Other
Postmodernism’s navel
Paternal metaphors?
4. History, holes and things
History’s navel
Natural history and the navel
Holes and things
Wombs, texts, hystery
Repetition, revolution, drive
5. Of meat and the matrix
Future history and the navel
Plugging into the One
Other matrix, other meat
Navel, image, screen
6. Romance of the machine
Navels in the machine
Going nodal
Bibliography
Index
Fred Botting is Professor of English Literature and Executive member of London Graduate School, Kingston University
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