Lacan and Capitalist Discourse

Lacan and Capitalist Discourse explores the political and theoretical connections between the Covid-19 Pandemic and Capitalism, unravelling the direct consequences of Lacan's thesis of so-called "Capitalist Discourse".

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Jorge Alemán is Doctor Honoris Causa of the Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Honorary Professor at the Universidad Nacional de Buenos Aires, the Universidad Nacional de San Martín, and the Universidad Nacional de Villa María Córdoba. He has published numerous essays on psychoanalysis, philosophy, and political thought.

Daniel Runnels is Assistant Professor of Spanish at the University of Central Missouri.

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Lacan and Capitalist Discourse explores the political and theoretical connections between the Covid-19 Pandemic and Capitalism, unravelling the direct consequences of Lacan's thesis of so-called "Capitalist Discourse".

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Acknowledgements

Series Preface by Ian Parker

Introduction

Chapter 1 Pandemic and Capitalism

Chapter 2 No-politics

Chapter 3 The Uncanny

Chapter 4 Evil

Chapter 5 Fantasy: Ideology

Chapter 6 Exploitation: Oppression

Chapter 7 Antagonism: Conflict

Chapter 8 Promoting Hate

Chapter 9 Popular Responsibility

Chapter 10 Blueprints of the Inappropriable

Chapter 11 Community, Society, State

Chapter 12 Retroactivity: Continuity and Discontinuity

Chapter 13 New Challenges

Chapter 14 Note