Does the Internet Have an Unconscious? Slavoj Žižek and Digital Culture & Algorithmic Desire: Toward a New Structuralist Theory of Social Media: Clint Burnham,Bloomsbury, 2018, 221 pp., $42.95, paperback, ISBN 978-1-5013-4129-8 & Matthew Flisfeder, Northwestern University Press, 2021, 228 pp., $34.95, paperback, ISBN 9780810143333

This review reads two recent books that approach the Internet through Marxist and psychoanalytic theory, Matthew Flisfeder’s Algorithmic Desire: Toward a New Structuralist Theory of Social Media and Clint Burnham’s Does the Internet Have an Unconscious? Slavoj Žižek and Digital Culture. The latter allows us to grasp the structured discourse of the Internet that produces the subject, while the former allows us to grasp the subject’s excess that signals the lack in the Internet as social structure.