Political Jouissance

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

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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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2024-09-19
Mått160 x 236 x 18 mm
Vikt520 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor240
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN9781350352759

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Slavoj Žižek is a Hegelian philosopher, a Lacanian psychoanalyst, and a Communist. He is International Director at the Birkbeck Institute for Humanities, University of London, UK, Visiting Professor at the New York University, USA, and Senior Researcher at the Department of Philosophy, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia.Nicol A. Barria-Asenjo is a writer and essayist, as well as a member of the Chilean “Le Monde Diplomatique” and “Nuestra República", Chile.

Introduction by Slavoj Žižek & Nicol A. Barria-AsenjoPreface: “Political Jouissance” by Darian LeaderPart I: Jouissance: The Political Crisis in Neoliberalism1. On the Material Existence of Ideology, Slavoj Žižek2. Neoliberalism, Liber-fascism and Cyber-liberalism: Modalities of Enjoying Symptoms in Current Capitalism, Jesús Ayala-Colqui and Nicol A. Barria-Asenjo3. Mistrust and Political Jouissance: From a “Tickle” to the “Blaze of Petrol", Andrea Perunovic4. Neoliberalism’s Political Jouissance and the Environmental Crisis in Latin America, Ignacio López-Calvo5. Hyper-Royalism: A Thai Modality of Political Jouissance, Pavin Chachavalpongpun6. The Joy Circuit, Jens Schröter7. Uncanny Politics. Machiavelli, Althusser and Lacan beyond Ideology, Natalia Romé8. Necro-society and Jouissance: The Acrobat, Lilith, and the Romantic Machine, Obed Frausto9. Jean-Luc Nancy. A Philosophy for a Transformative Existence, Francesca R. Recchia LucianiPart II: Inside and Outside the Psychoanalytic View of Politics10. Daydream and Emancipation. Against Surplus Enjoyment, Repression and their Parallax of Lack and Excess, Nicol A. Barria-Asenjo, Slavoj Žižek, Brian Willems, Andrea Perunovic, Ruben Balotol Jr and Gonzalo Salas11. Perverted Erotics in the Political Unconscious: Lacan and Bataille, Tim Themi12. In the Absence of Politics: A Matter of Life and Death Drive, Daniel Bristow13. Synchronic Interactions among Discourse, Knowledge (saber) and Jouissance. Politibiology and/or Biopolitics, Alfredo Eidelsztein14. The Jouissance of Capital: Notes for a Lacanian Critique of Political Economy, David Pavón-Cuéllar15. Aggression & the Future, Mia Neuhaus16. AOC and Her Boyfriend´s Leg, Slavoj Žižek17. Jouissance the Levinas Way, Graham Harman