Political Jouissance / edited by Slavoj Žižek and Nicol A. Barria-Asenjo.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Barria-Asenjo, Nicol A., editor.

Zizek, Slavoj, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Emotions.

Political psychology.

Political science--Philosophy.

Political science.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (241 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing (UK), 2024.

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2024.

System Details:

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Summary:

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. Rather than delegitimizing or depoliticising, the tacit enjoyment of outrage can in fact facilitate different forms of engagement. The tendency for groups to be bonded by a common enemy, for example, brings with it a protection from censure or persecution, and a way of alleviating guilt. 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.

Contents:

Introduction by Slavoj Zizek & Nicol A. Barria-Asenjo Preface: "Political Jouissance" by Darian Leader Part I: Jouissance: The Political Crisis in Neoliberalism 1. On the Material Existence of Ideology, Slavoj Zizek 2. Neoliberalism, Liber-fascism and Cyber-liberalism: Modalities of Enjoying Symptoms in Current Capitalism, Jesus Ayala-Colqui and Nicol A. Barria-Asenjo 3. Mistrust and Political Jouissance: From a "Tickle" to the "Blaze of Petrol", Andrea Perunovic 4. Neoliberalism's Political Jouissance and the Environmental Crisis in Latin America, Ignacio Lopez-Calvo 5. Hyper-Royalism: A Thai Modality of Political Jouissance, Pavin Chachavalpongpun 6. The Joy Circuit, Jens Schroeter 7. Uncanny Politics. Machiavelli, Althusser and Lacan beyond Ideology, Natalia Rome 8. Necro-society and Jouissance: The Acrobat, Lilith, and the Romantic Machine, Obed Frausto 9. Jean-Luc Nancy. A Philosophy for a Transformative Existence, Francesca R. Recchia Luciani Part II: Inside and Outside the Psychoanalytic View of Politics 10. Daydream and Emancipation. Against Surplus Enjoyment, Repression and their Parallax of Lack and Excess, Nicol A. Barria-Asenjo, Slavoj Zizek, Brian Willems, Andrea Perunovic, Ruben Balotol Jr and Gonzalo Salas 11. Perverted Erotics in the Political Unconscious: Lacan and Bataille, Tim Themi 12. In the Absence of Politics: A Matter of Life and Death Drive, Daniel Bristow 13. Synchronic Interactions among Discourse, Knowledge (saber) and Jouissance. Politibiology and/or Biopolitics, Alfredo Eidelsztein 14. The Jouissance of Capital: Notes for a Lacanian Critique of Political Economy, David Pavon-Cuellar 15. Aggression & the Future, Mia Neuhaus 16. AOC and Her Boyfriends Leg, Slavoj Zizek 17. Jouissance the Levinas Way, Graham Harman

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

9781350352766

1350352764

9781350352773

1350352772

9781350352780

1350352780

OCLC:

1422091608