Taking seriously Jacques Lacans claim that the unconscious is politics, this volume proposes a new understanding of political power, interrogating the assumption that contemporary capitalism functions by tapping into forms of unconscious enjoyment, rather than providing transcendental conditions for the articulation of political meanings and desires.
Whether were aware of it or not, political communication today targets the audiences libidinal response through political and institutional language: in policies, speeches, tweets, social media appearances, gestures and images. Yet does this mean that current power structures no longer need symbolic or ideological frameworks? The authors in this volume think not. Far from demonstrating a shift to a post-ideological age, they argue instead that such methods inaugurate an altogether novel approach to political power.
Written by leading scholars from around the world, including Roberto Esposito and Slavoj iek, each chapter reflects on contemporary power and inspires consideration of new political potentialities, which our focus on politics in transcendental rather than immanent terms has thus far obscured. In so doing, Capitalism and the New Political Unconscious provides an original and forceful exploration of the centrality of both psychoanalytic theory and the philosophy of immanence to an alternative understanding of the political.
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The individual chapters of Capitalism and the new Political Unconscious provide invaluable keys for interpreting the most recent innovations in the world economy and the subtle changes in our interpretations of the signs and symbols steering those mutations. The book offers a sophisticated guide to understanding the architecture of power in the third decade of the twenty-first century. * Darrow Schecter, Professor of Critical Theory & Modern European History, University of Sussex, UK * The codependent forces of corporate digital media and a truth-averse reactive subjectivity mark an unprecedented shift in the nexus between politics and the unconscious, this book argues. Its extraordinary value lies in the proposed solution, radical in its deceptive banality: the rehabilitation of public institutions in their capacity to mediate the ravages of jouissance. * James Penney, Professor of Cultural Studies and French and Francophone Studies, Trent University, Canada *
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Exploring the appeals to the unconscious used in contemporary politics, international scholars investigate the importance of both psychoanalysis and the philosophy of immanence to a new understanding of political power.
Acknowledgements
Part I: Institutions
1. On Institutions, Roberto Esposito (University of Pisa, Scuola Normale
Superiore, Italy)
2. For a Clinical Theory of the Institution, Massimo Recalcati (University of
Pavia, Italy)
3. Instituting Power, Riccardo Panattoni (University of Verona, Italy)
4. Vox Populi, Vox Dei: On the Vocal Substance of the Present, Federico Leoni
(University of Verona, Italy)
Part II: Ideology
5. Neo-plebs and Elites in the Global World, Matteo Vegetti (Universitą della
Svizzera Italiana, Switzerland)
6. On the Theatricality and Historicity of the Political, Gregor Moder
(University of Ljubljana, Slovenia)
7. A Critique of Biopolitics, Maurizio Lazzarato (University of Paris 1
Panthéon-Sorbonne, France)
8. Profit, Knowledge and Jouissance: Lacan and the Logic of Action, Matteo
Bonazzi (University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy)
Part III: Capitalism
9. Jansenist Morality and the Compulsion of Capitalism, Samo Tomic (Humboldt
University of Berlin, Germany)
10. Matrix Resurrections, or Jouissance as a Political Factor, Slavoj iek
(Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, UK)
11. The Perfect Crime? Baudrillard, COVID-19, and Capitalist Virulence, Fabio
Vighi (University of Cardiff, UK)
12. Capitalism and Law: from Servitude to Freedom, Todd McGowan (Vermont
University, USA)
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Index
Fabio Vighi is Professor of Critical Theory and Italian at Cardiff University, UK. His previous titles include: Critical Theory and the Crisis of Contemporary Capitalism, co-authored with Heiko Feldner (Bloomsbury, 2015) and Between Urban Topographies and Political Spaces: Threshold Experiences (2014), co-edited with Alexis Nuselovici and Mauro Ponzi.
Riccardo Panattoni is Professor of Moral Philosophy and Director of the Department of Human Sciences at Verona University, Italy. His previous titles include: Giorgio Agamben. La vita che prende forma (2018) and, co-edited with E. Grazioli, Live. Intensitą, intermittenza, registrazione (2017).
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