Political jouissance / edited by Nicol A. Barria-Asenjo and Slavoj Žižek.
| Other author | Barria-Asenjo, Nicol A., editor. |
| Other author | Žižek, Slavoj, editor. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2024. |
| Description | xvii, 216 pages ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Inttoduction / Slavoj Žižek & Nicol A. Barria-Asenjo -- Part I: Jouissance : the political crisis in neoliberalism -- On the material existence of ideology / Slavoj Žižek -- Neoliberalism, liber-fascism and cyber-liberalism : modalities of enjoying symptoms in current capitalism / Jesús Ayala-Colqui and Nicol A. Barria-Asenjo -- Mistrust and political jouissance : from a "tickle" to the "blaze of petrol" / Andrea Perunović -- Neoliberalism's political jouissance and the environmental crisis in Latin America / Ignacio López-Calvo -- Hyper-royalism : a Thai modality of political jouissance / Pavin Chachavalpongpun -- The joy circuit / Jens Schröter -- Uncanny politics : Machiavelli, Althusser and Lacan beyond ideology / Natalia Romé -- Necro-society and jouissance : the acrobat, Lilith, and the romantic machine / Obed Frausto -- Jean-Luc Nancy : a philosophy for a transformative existence / Francesca R. Recchia Luciani -- Part II: Inside and outside the psychoanalytic view of politics -- Daydream and emancipation : against surplus enjoyment, repression and their parallax of lack and excess / Nicol A. Barria-Asenjo, Slavoj Žižek, Brian Willems, Andrea Perunović, Ruben Balotol Jr and Gonzalo Salas -- Perverted erotics in the political unconscious : Lacan and Bataille / Tim Themi -- In the absence of politics : a matter of life and death drive / Daniel Bristow -- Synchronic interactions among discourse, knowledge (saber) and jouissance : politibiology and/or biopolitics / Alfredo Eidelsztein -- The jouissance of capital : notes for a Lacanian critique of political economy / David Pavón-Cuéllar -- Aggression & the future / Mia Neuhaus -- AOC and her boyfriend's leg / Slavoj Žižek -- Jouissance the Levinas way / Graham Harman. |
| Abstract | "When we oppose or disagree with something important, do we ever really do it dispassionately? Isn't setting the world to rights or condemning a political opponent always done with a hint of relish, or at least enthusiasm? This book's challenging essays explore the modes in which that transgressive pleasure of political 'jouissance' operates. In this collection, the authors seek out jouissance in the battle against patriarchy, in social revolts, in the age of mechanical surveillance, in the necrosociety of neoliberalism, or the proliferation of conspiracy theories. Drawing on Lacan's insistence that jouissance is intrinsically political by its nature, we can understand how readily psychoanalytic ideas can be put to use across the geopolitical spectrum"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Political jouissance London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2024 9781350352773 |
| LCCN | 2023058359 |
| ISBN | 9781350352742 |
| ISBN | 9781350352759 (hardback) |
| ISBN | 1350352756 |
| ISBN | 1350352748 |
| ISBN | (epub) |
| ISBN | (ebook) |