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Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 29 September 2017
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/11413.001.0001
EISBN: 9780262342520
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.
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 29 September 2017
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/11413.003.0001
EISBN: 9780262342520
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 29 September 2017
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/11413.003.0002
EISBN: 9780262342520
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 29 September 2017
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/11413.003.0003
EISBN: 9780262342520
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 29 September 2017
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/11413.003.0004
EISBN: 9780262342520
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 29 September 2017
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/11413.003.0005
EISBN: 9780262342520
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 29 September 2017
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/11413.003.0006
EISBN: 9780262342520
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 29 September 2017
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/11413.003.0007
EISBN: 9780262342520
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 29 September 2017
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/11413.003.0008
EISBN: 9780262342520
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 29 September 2017
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/11413.003.0009
EISBN: 9780262342520
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 29 September 2017
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/11413.003.0010
EISBN: 9780262342520
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 29 September 2017
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/11413.003.0011
EISBN: 9780262342520
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 29 September 2017
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/11413.003.0012
EISBN: 9780262342520
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 29 September 2017
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/11413.003.0013
EISBN: 9780262342520
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 29 September 2017
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/11413.003.0014
EISBN: 9780262342520
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 29 September 2017
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/11413.003.0015
EISBN: 9780262342520
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 29 September 2017
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/11413.003.0016
EISBN: 9780262342520
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 21 February 2014
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/9974.001.0001
EISBN: 9780262321549
Žižek as comedian: jokes in the service of philosophy. “A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.”—Ludwig Wittgenstein The good news is that this book offers an entertaining but enlightening compilation of Žižekisms. Unlike any other book by Slavoj Žižek, this compact arrangement of jokes culled from his writings provides an index to certain philosophical, political, and sexual themes that preoccupy him. Žižek's Jokes contains the set-ups and punch lines—as well as the offenses and insults—that Žižek is famous for, all in less than 200 pages. So what's the bad news? There is no bad news. There's just the inimitable Slavoj Žižek, disguised as an impossibly erudite, politically incorrect uncle, beginning a sentence, “There is an old Jewish joke, loved by Derrida...“ For Žižek, jokes are amusing stories that offer a shortcut to philosophical insight. He illustrates the logic of the Hegelian triad, for example, with three variations of the “Not tonight, dear, I have a headache” classic: first the wife claims a migraine; then the husband does; then the wife exclaims, “Darling, I have a terrible migraine, so let's have some sex to refresh me!” A punch line about a beer bottle provides a Lacanian lesson about one signifier. And a “truly obscene” version of the famous “aristocrats” joke has the family offering a short course in Hegelian thought rather than a display of unspeakables. Žižek's Jokes contains every joke cited, paraphrased, or narrated in Žižek's work in English (including some in unpublished manuscripts), including different versions of the same joke that make different points in different contexts. The larger point being that comedy is central to Žižek's seriousness.
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 21 February 2014
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/9974.003.0001
EISBN: 9780262321549
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 21 February 2014
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/9974.003.0002
EISBN: 9780262321549