Political Jouissance

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

In this impressive multi-disciplinary collection, we have what we so badly needed: a series of socio-historically grounded studies that apply the concept of jouissance in properly analytical and critically-nuanced ways. An invaluable resource for anyone wishing to apply the concept of jouissance to the complexities of socio-political analysis today.