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The Third Unconscious
A wide-ranging exploration of the present, and the future, of the Unconcious The Unconscious knows no time, it has no before-and-after, it does not have a history of its own. Yet, it does not always remain the same. Different political and economic conditions transform the way in which the Unconscious emerges within the "psychosphere" of society. In the early 20th century, Freud characterized the Unconscious as the dark side of the well-order framework of Progress and Reason. At the end of the past century, Deleuze and Guattari described it as a laboratory: the magmatic force ceaselessly bringing to the fore new possibilities of imagination. Today, at a time of viral pandemics and in the midst of the catastrophic collapse of capitalism, the Unconscious has begun to emerge in yet another form. In this book, Franco 'Bifo' Berardi vividly portraits the form in which the Unconscious will make itself manifest for decades to come, and the challenges that it will pose to our possibilities of political action, poetic imagination, and therapy.
Deleuze: A Philosophy of the Event
A new translation of two essential works on Deleuze, written by one of his contemporaries. From the publication of Deleuze: A Philosophy of the Event to his untimely death in 2006, Franois Zourabichvili was regarded as one of the most important new voices of contemporary philosophy in France. His work continues to make an essential contribution to Deleuze scholarship today. This edition makes two of Zourabichvili's most important writings on the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze available in a single volume. A Philosophy of the Event (1994) is an exposition of Deleuze's philosophy as a whole, while the complementary Deleuze's Vocabulary (2003) approaches Deleuze's work through an analysis of key concepts in a dictionary form.This new translation is set to become an event within Deleuze Studies for many years to come.Key Features: Distinguishes Deleuze's notion of the event from the phenomenological, ontological and voluntarist conceptions that continue to lay claim to it todayWith an introduction by Gregg Lambert and Daniel W. Smith, two of the world's leading commentators on Deleuze, explaining the key themes and arguments of Zourabichvili's work
Philosophical Considerations on Contemporary Music
The musical universe of the 20th and 21st centuries is a force-field in which styles, instruments, personalities and stories can be found that are ascribable to conceptual frameworks that may differ greatly one from another. Such complexity cannot be traced back to single theories or all-encompassing interpretations, but may be tackled, philosophically, starting from certain characteristics. This book identifies nine such characteristics: namely, Extremes, Noise, Silence, Technology, Audience, Listening, Freedom, Disintegration, and New Media. Each of these permits us to open up unforeseen philosophical-cultural paths and interpret, in its multifarious variety, the developments of contemporary music, profoundly interwoven with the history of thought, culture and society.
Faces of Precarity
The words ‘precarity’ and ‘precariousness’ are widely used when discussing work, social conditions and experiences. However, there is no consensus on their meaning or how best to use them to explore social changes. This book shows how scholars have mapped out these notions, offering substantive analyses of issues such as the relationships between precariousness, debt, migration, health and workers’ mobilizations, and how these relationships have changed in the context of COVID-19. Bringing together an international group of authors from diverse fields, this book offers a distinctive critical perspective on the processes of precarization, focusing in particular on the European context. The Introduction, Chapters 3 and 8, and the Afterword are available Open Access via OAPEN under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.
Babelonline
«Il tema» del numero 5 del 2019 di B@belonline, curato da Attilio Bruzzone, Guelfo Carbone e Elisabetta Colagrossi, raccoglie gran parte degli interventi di un convegno internazionale tenutosi tra Roma e Genova nel 2018 per celebrare il centenario della pubblicazione della prima edizione del Geist der Utopie. Abbiamo qui voluto restituire il dialogo a distanza tra queste due occasioni, generate dal comune intento di tornare a confrontarsi, sempre di nuovo, con quest’opera “esplosiva” del giovane Bloch, uno dei capolavori del pensiero politico utopico del secolo scorso. Dedichiamo questo numero a Remo Bodei, eccellente studioso del pensiero di Ernst Bloch (tra tanti altri temi), che ci ha lasciati in questo mese di novembre
Soffro dunque siamo
La depressione, è stato detto, è la malattia del ventunesimo secolo. Gli antidepressivi rappresentano una delle principali componenti della spesa farmaceutica pubblica e stanno emergendo forme del disagio psichico che non erano altrettanto rilevanti nella psicopatologia del Novecento: disturbi di panico, disturbi borderline, anoressia, bulimia, fenomeni di ritiro sociale. Questo «contagio», cui la pandemia ha fatto da moltiplicatore, ci dice molto sulla natura della nostra civiltà ipermoderna e neoliberale – quella che ha preso corpo negli anni Ottanta all'insegna del motto thatcheriano: «La società non esiste. Esistono solo gli individui». Grazie a una ricerca lucida e incentrata ...
The Power of Distraction
From Pascal to contemporary anxieties about attention, we have constantly been urged to avoid distraction if we want to live and work better. But Alessandra Aloisi argues that we are missing the point.Drawing on a broad range ofEuropean philosophy and literature, this book considers distraction not as an expression of human imperfection, but as a creative, subversive, and aesthetic capability. In contrast to the traditional accounts, from Saint Augustine to Robert Burton, which either associated distraction with sin or considered it as a symptom of melancholy, Aloisi argues that it is often precisely when we stop thinking about something that inspiration finds us. Why else are artists descri...
Conversations on Cinema
Eleven conversations taken from as many issues of Fata Morgana. Eleven conversations which synthesize the project behind the journal which was born in spring 2006. At the time it was decided against having an editorial comment because of the conviction that if the journal was going to succeed it would speak for itself. However, the time has come to say a few words. A journal is first and foremost a collective gesture whose outline creates a field. The gesture made by Fata Morgana, which at the beginning was only an intuition and then it slowly developed, is the same one that makes cinema a place and an opportunity to think about contemporaneity. It is not simply about what happens around us;...
Instituting Thought
This new book by the Italian philosopher Roberto Esposito addresses the profound crisis of contemporary politics and examines some of the philosophical approaches that have been used to try to understand and go beyond this crisis. Two approaches have been particularly influential – one indebted to the thought of Martin Heidegger, the other indebted to Gilles Deleuze. While opposed in their political thrust and orientation, both approaches remain trapped within the political ontology that has framed our conceptual language for some time. In order to move beyond this political ontology, Esposito turns to a third approach that he characterizes as ‘instituting thought’. Indebted to the wor...
Essere e libertà
La riflessione di Heidegger sulla libertà ha ricevuto un’attenzione relativamente modesta, lontana in ogni caso da ricostruzioni sistematiche o analisi approfondite del tema. La presente ricerca intende riaprire il dossier e rimettere mano al problema. Heidegger, in effetti, si è impegnato in un intenso confronto con la questione della libertà, nel periodo che va dal 1927 al 1936, elaborandone tre fondamentali modelli teorici. Essi implicano una radicale trasformazione della tradizionale concezione dell’etica, ma sottopongono a una profonda revisione anche le abituali concezioni della decisione, della scelta, dell’atto con cui l’uomo si autodetermina nella sua esperienza. Il quadro dell’analisi viene ampliato esplorando ciò che sta al di là del periodo preso in esame, cercando di far luce in senso retrospettivo sulla genesi della questione della libertà negli anni precedenti al 1927 e poi, guardando in avanti, sugli sviluppi della questione dopo il 1936, nella fase successiva alla svolta.
