Zwischen Eskalation und Selbstkontrolle: Zur Ent/Hemmung im Digitalen

Between Escalation and Self-Control: On Disinhibition in the Digital World "A brilliant analysis of the digital homelessness of the 'viral subject' and the aporetic logic of the dissolution of boundaries in digital space. Jacob Johanssen's study opens our eyes to disinhibition/inhibition dynamics and examines their effects on the constitution of individuals and society." - Prof. Dr. Lilli Gast, International Psychoanalytic University Berlin. The Internet is currently seemingly mutating into a disinhibition machine: emotions and affects are unleashed in concentrated form in timelines and comment columns, people are bombarding others with shitstorms, issuing death threats or flooding platforms with racist hatred. All of this is multiplied many times over by likes and comments. The provocative, escalatory and uncontrolled nature of a disinhibited ego is unthinkable without the flip side - inhibition, repression, evasion and censorship. With regard to body images, hatred, violence and sexuality in the digital world, Jacob Johanssen shows that inhibition and disinhibition are interwoven in complex ways. Critically, knowledgeably and in tune with current debates, he questions the frequently put forward diagnosis of a completely and exclusively uninhibited Internet.