Political Jouissance

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 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.>

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Slavoj iek **is a Hegelian philosopher, a Lacanian psychoanalyst, and a Communist. He is International Director at the Birkbeck Institute for Humanities, University of London, UK, Visiting Professor at the New York University, USA, and Senior Researcher at the Department of Philosophy, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. Nicol A. Barria-Asenjo** is a writer and essayist, as well as a member of the Chilean Le
Monde Diplomatique and Nuestra República".

Inhalt

Introduction by Slavoj iek & 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 iek
2. Neoliberalism, Liber-fascism and Cyber-liberalism: Modalities of Enjoying Symptoms in Current Capitalism, Jesús 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 López-Calvo
5. Hyper-Royalism: A Thai Modality of Political Jouissance, Pavin Chachavalpongpun
   
   6. The Joy Circuit, Jens Schröter
   7. Uncanny Politics. Machiavelli, Althusser and Lacan beyond Ideology, Natalia Romé
6. Necro-society and Jouissance: The Acrobat, Lilith, and the Romantic Machine, Obed Frausto

7. Jean-Luc Nancy. A Philosophy for a Transformative Existence, Francesca R. Recchia Luciani

   Part II: Inside and Outside the Psychoanalytic View of Politics

8. Daydream and Emancipation. Against Surplus Enjoyment, Repression and their Parallax of Lack and Excess, Nicol A. Barria-Asenjo, Slavoj iek, Brian Willems, Andrea Perunovic, Ruben Balotol Jr and Gonzalo Salas
9. Perverted Erotics in the Political Unconscious: Lacan and Bataille, Tim Themi
10. In the Absence of Politics: A Matter of Life and Death Drive, Daniel Bristow
11. 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 Pavón-Cuéllar
12. Aggression & the Future, Mia Neuhaus
13. AOC and Her Boyfriend´s Leg, *Slavoj iek
14. Jouissance the Levinas Way,Graham Harman*