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The “formidably brilliant” Žižek 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 Žižek]]. In Incontinence of the [[Void ]] (the title is inspired by a [[sentence ]] in Samuel Beckett’s late masterpiece Ill Seen Ill Said), Žižek 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 Zupančič’s What Is Sex?, Žižek 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, Žižek extrapolates from ontological [[excess ]] to Marxian [[surplus ]] [[value ]] to Lacan’s surplus [[enjoyment]]. In [[true ]] Žižekian fashion, Incontinence of the Void focuses on eternal topics while detouring freely into contemporary issuesfrom the Internet of Things to Danish TV series.