Incontinence Of The Void – Economico–philosophical Spandrels

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Incontinence of the Void – Economico–Philosophical Spandrels - Slavoj Žižek
Slavoj Žižek
Author: Slavoj Zizek
File type: epub
Publisher: MIT Press
Year: 2017
Language: English
ISBN: 0262036819
Time Added: Wed Feb 13 2019 14:07:50 GMT+0300 (MSK)
File type: epub
Size: 503 kb
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Edition: 1st
Pages: 374
Id: 2127383
Time Modified: Wed Feb 13 2019 14:07:50 GMT+0300 (MSK)
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Bibtex: "Slavoj Žižek",
"Incontinence of the Void – Economico–Philosophical Spandrels"
The "formidably brilliant" Zizek considers sexuality, ontology, subjectivity, and Marxian critiques of political economy by way of Lacanian psychoanalysis.If the most interesting theoretical interventions emerge today from the interspaces between fields, then the foremost interspaceman is Slavoj Zizek. In Incontinence of the Void (the title is inspired by a sentence in Samuel Beckett's late masterpiece Ill Seen Ill Said), Zizek explores the empty spaces between philosophy, psychoanalysis, and the critique of political economy. He proceeds from the universal dimension of philosophy to the particular dimension of sexuality to the singular dimension of the critique of political economy. The passage from one dimension to another is immanent: the ontological void is accessible only through the impasses of sexuation and the ongoing prospect of the abolition of sexuality, which is itself opened up by the technoscientific progress of global capitalism, in turn leading to the critique of political economy.Responding to his colleague and fellow Short Circuits author Alenka Zupancic's What Is Sex?, Zizek examines the notion of an excessive element in ontology that gives body to radical negativity, which becomes the antagonism of sexual difference. From the economico-philosophical perspective, Zizek extrapolates from ontological excess to Marxian surplus value to Lacan's surplus enjoyment. In true Zizekian fashion, Incontinence of the Void focuses on eternal topics while detouring freely into contemporary issuesfrom the Internet of Things to Danish TV series.