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Incontinence of the Void: Economico-Philosophical Spandrels by Slavoj Zizek; Stockholm Inst Of Transition Staff
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Short Circuits Ser.
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 ...Show more
The Odd One In by ZUPANCIC
Category: Fiction | Series: Short Circuits Ser.
A Lacanian look at how comedy might come to philosophy's rescue, with examples ranging from Hegel and Moli re to George W. Bush and Borat.Why philosophize about comedy? What is the use of investigating the comical from philosophical and psychoanalytic perspectives? In The Odd One In, Alenka Zupancic con ...Show more
What IS Sex? by Alenka Zupancic
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Short Circuits Ser.
Why sexuality is at the point of a "short circuit" between ontology and epistemology. Consider sublimation--conventionally understood as a substitute satisfaction for missing sexual satisfaction. But what if, as Lacan claims, we can get exactly the same satisfaction that we get from sex from talking (o ...Show more
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