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An Attempt to Understand The 4th Industrial Revolution and the Unconscious Through Schizoanalysis

MUSTAFA SOLMAZ1
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1 İnönü Üniversitesi, Fen-Edebiyat Fakültesi, Sosyoloji Bölümü 44000, Malatya, Türkiye
BIJP 2025, 15(3), 939–964; https://doi.org/10.29228/beytulhikme.81002
Received: 3 March 2025 | Published online: 27 September 2025
© 2025 by the Authors. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution -Noncommercial 4.0 International License (CC-by the license) ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ )
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Abstract

 Bringing the 4th Industrial Revolution and the unconscious together constitutes the aim of this study. One of the prominent features of the 4th Industrial Revolution is the ‘internet of things’. In this sense, all objects and even people are connected to a common database through technologies such as barcodes, QR codes, chips, RFID. “Connectivity” is one of the most prominent features of the 4th Industrial Revolution. We focused on schizoanalysis to find the unconscious counterpart of this understanding. Because schizoanalysis sees the unconscious as something machinic and explains everything in terms of interconnected machines. Here, we tried to bring together the understanding of the unconscious in the form of interconnected machines and the connection in the 4th Industrial Revolution. The method applied for this was document analysis. This text, which is not a field study, has been prepared based on books, articles, etc. related to the subject depending on the document review method. Although the 4th Industrial Revolution involves gathering and attachment, it also involves significant risks. Although it is not possible to say this for the unconscious of schizoanalysis, what is essential to note for the 4th Industrial Revolution is that these connections also carry a risk of control and supervision. What needs to be done is to bring together connection and autonomy or freedom.

Keywords
Industrial revolution
schizoanalysis
smartness
unconscious
connection.
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