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Political Jouissance
When we oppose or disagree with something important, do we ever really do it dispassionately? Isn't setting the world to rights or condemning a political opponent always done with a hint of relish, or at least enthusiasm? This book's challenging essays explore the modes in which that transgressive pleasure of political 'jouissance' operates. Rather than delegitimizing or depoliticising, the tacit enjoyment of outrage can in fact facilitate different forms of engagement. The tendency for groups to be bonded by a common enemy, for example, brings with it a protection from censure or persecution, and a way of alleviating guilt. In this collection, the authors seek out jouissance in the battle against patriarchy, in social revolts, in the age of mechanical surveillance, in the necrosociety of neoliberalism, or the proliferation of conspiracy theories. Drawing on Lacan's insistence that jouissance is intrinsically political by its nature, we can understand how readily psychoanalytic ideas can be put to use across the geopolitical spectrum.
Global Manifestos for the Twenty-First Century
Bringing together over forty original short essays, some academic, others more creative in nature, this collection responds to the political, historical, social, and economic situation in which we find ourselves today. The editors argue that we are living in a repetition that must be stopped – if our goal is that the signifier "humanity" remains in the following centuries, the time has come to work in the present. The objective is not to deliver precise or quick answers, but to gather varied voices from different continents, bringing together different languages, ideas, practices, theories, thoughts, and desires. In the words of Yanis Varoufakis, "urging us to become agents of a future that ends unnecessary mass suffering and inspire humanity to realise its potential for authentic freedom." To leave the concept of a manifesto open, the contradictory aspects of the chapters are a subject of the manifesto itself. This is a manifesto of contradictions that reflects our reality as well as our struggles and our aspirations. This unique anthology will appeal to students and scholars across the humanities and social sciences interested in critical theory and social change.
A Lacanian Conception of Populism
A Lacanian Conception of Populism takes issue with traditional theories of populism, which seek to equate populism with hegemony, arguing that these are not only different but even incompatible logics. Timothy Appleton contends that one of the main differences between populism and hegemony has to do with the social totality: while hegemony absolutises it, populism eviscerates it, setting in its place an (apparently paradoxical) dispersion of singular instances of ‘the people’. The book considers the work of Laclau, Badiou, Žižek and Rancière, before arriving at a novel conceptualisation that Appleton dubs ‘the populism of singularities’. In the second half of the book, the author ...
An Anthology of Blackness
An adventurous collection that examines how the design field has consistently failed to attract and support Black professionals—and how to create an anti-racist, pro-Black design industry instead. An Anthology of Blackness examines the intersection of Black identity and practice, probing why the design field has failed to attract Black professionals, how Eurocentric hegemony impacts Black professionals, and how Black designers can create an anti-racist design industry. Contributing authors and creators demonstrate how to develop a pro-Black design practice of inclusivity, including Black representation in designed media, anti-racist pedagogy, and radical self-care. Through autoethnography,...
Global Manifestos for the Twenty-first Century
Bringing together over forty original short essays, some academic, others more creative in nature, this collection responds to the political, historical, social, and economic situation in which we find ourselves today. The editors argue that we are living in a repetition that must be stopped - if our goal is that the signifier "humanity" remains in the following centuries, the time has come to work in the present. The objective is not to deliver precise or quick answers, but to gather varied voices from different continents, bringing together different languages, ideas, practices, theories, thoughts, and desires. In the words of Yanis Varoufakis, "urging us to become agents of a future that ends unnecessary mass suffering and inspire humanity to realise its potential for authentic freedom." To leave the concept of a manifesto open, the contradictory aspects of the chapters are a subject of the manifesto itself. This is a manifesto of contradictions that reflects our reality as well as our struggles and our aspirations. This unique anthology will appeal to students and scholars across the humanities and social sciences interested in critical theory and social change.
Pandemic! 2
What do sex doll sales, locust swarms and a wired-brain pig have to do with the coronavirus pandemic? Everything—according to that “Giant of Lubliana,” the inimitable Slovenian philosopher Slavoj i ek. In this exhilarating sequel to his acclaimed Pandemic!: COVID-19 Shakes the World, i ek delves into some of the more surprising dimensions of lockdowns, quarantines, and social distancing—and the increasingly unruly opposition to them by “response fatigued” publics around the world. i ek examines the ripple effects on the food supply of harvest failures caused by labor shortages and the hyper-exploitation of the global class of care workers, without whose labor daily life would be impossible. Through such examples he pinpoints the inability of contemporary capitalism to safeguard effectively the public in times of crisis. Writing with characteristic daring and zeal, i ek ranges across critical theory, pop-culture, and psychoanalysis to reveal the troubling dynamics of knowledge and power emerging in these viral times.
Pandemik 2! Ketidakmampuan Kapitalisme Menghadapi Krisis
“Sebuah tulisan yang mengesankan” – The Guardian Apa hubungan penjualan boneka seks, kawanan belalang, populisme sayap kanan, hingga perusakan lingkungan dengan pandemi virus corona? Semuanya dianalisis oleh Slavoj Žižek dengan pendekatan kritis, filsafat psikoanalisis, hingga berbagai anekdot di dalam buku ini. Dalam seri 2 buku Pandemik!, Žižek berargumen bahwa untuk mengusulkan cara mengatasi krisis akibat pandemi COVID-19, maka kita semua harus menjadi filsuf. Itu penting karena ada banyak persoalan untuk memahami krisis secara jernih, baik disebabkan oleh beredarnya informasi palsu, para penganut teori konspirasi yang egois, pembelaan membabi-buta para buzzer, hingga lelucon s...
El despertar afectivo
“Freud, en El malestar en la cultura, afirmó que frente al mal no se trata de oponer el bien, sino el amor. Pero este amor no puede ser el de la masa, que cancela las diferencias y las tensiones, o el de la identificación por el compartido amor al líder, que desemboca en la destrucción del diferente. Es, entonces, «un nuevo amor» que incluya el uso público de la razón, que, como sostenía Kant, debe ser libre en todo momento.”
La política que viene
Parafraseando a Mark Twain, los rumores sobre la muerte del populismo han sido en gran parte una exageración. ¿Son sus teorizaciones tradicionales adecuadas? En este libro, Timothy Appleton señala que, mientras que el populismo tradicionalmente se ha considerado sinónimo de hegemonía (la idea de que algunas demandas sociales se vean subordinadas a otras), en realidad, se trata de dos lógicas distintas e incompatibles. Partiendo de esta premisa, reinterpreta varios elementos del debate sobre el populismo: el entusiasmo político, la posverdad, el liderazgo, la soberanía, el nacionalismo, la relación entre populismo y los partidos políticos. Appleton abre un nuevo capítulo en la teoría populista: «el populismo de las singularidades». «El “populismo de las singularidades” que propone Appleton abre un camino nuevo para pensar la teoría populista y la política venidera a la luz de Rancière y Lacan. Un trabajo riguroso, original y necesario». Pablo Bustinduy
فلسفة الفوضى
المحرّك الدائم لعصرنا هو الفوضى التي لا هوادة فيها. يتفحّص جيجيك بهدوء وتجرّد شديد تصدّعات اليسار، والوعود الفارغة للديموقراطية الليبرالية، والتنازلات الواهية التي قدّمها الأقوياء. ومن رماد هذه الإخفاقات، يؤكد الحاجة إلى التضامن الدولي والتحوّل الاقتصادي. يتّسم هذا الكتاب بالثراء المتميز في المفارقات والانعكاسات، ويتعامل بالعمق التحليلي نفسه مع دروس رامشتاين وكوربين وأورويل ولينين. كما ينقّب عن الحقائق العالمية من المواقع السياسية المحلية في فلسطين وتشيلي وفرنسا وكردستان، وما وراءها. هل يمكن أن تكون كوارث اليوم حافزاً للتقدم أم أنها تحوّلت إلى شيء فظيع لا يمكن إصلاحه؟
