A short circuit occurs when there is a wrong connection in the network—wrong, of course, from the standpoint of the smooth functioning of the network. Is therefore the shock of short circuiting not one of the best metaphors for a critical reading? Is not one of the most efficient critical procedures to cross wires that don't usually touch—to take a major classic (text, author, notion) and read it in a short circuiting way, through the lenses of a "minor" author, text, or conceptual apparatus ("minor" in the sense of marginalized, disavowed by the hegemonic ideology, dealing with a "lower," less dignified topic)? The starting premise of this series is that Lacanian psychoanalysis is a privileged instrument of such an approach. This, then, is not a new series of books on psychoanalysis, but a series of "connections of the Freudian field"—of short Lacanian interventions into art, philosophy, theology, and ideology.
—Slavoj Žižek
Publications 1 - 12 of 12
Interface Fantasy A Lacanian Cyborg Ontology André Nusselder
Behind our computer screens we are all cyborgs: through fantasy we can understand our involvement in virtual worlds. Paper / November 2009 Price $18.95 | ADD TO CART
Interrogation Machine Laibach and NSK Alexei Monroe; Foreword by Slavoj Žižek
The first English-language study of NSK—one of the contemporary art world's most radical forces—with particular focus on the performances and productions of NSK's musical and conceptual division, Laibach. Paper / September 2005 Price $35.00 | ADD TO CART
Is Oedipus Online? Siting Freud after Freud Jerry Aline Flieger
Psychoanalysis as a navigation device for the cultural maze of the twenty-first century. Paper / May 2005 Price $21.95 | ADD TO CART
The Monstrosity of Christ Paradox or Dialectic? Slavoj Žižek and John Milbank; Edited by Creston Davis
A militant Marxist atheist and a "Radical Orthodox" Christian theologian square off on everything from the meaning of theology and Christ to the war machine of corporate mafia. Cloth / April 2009 Price $27.95 | ADD TO CART
The Parallax View Slavoj Žižek
In Zizek's long-awaited magnum opus, he theorizes the "parallax gap" in the ontological, the scientific, and the political—and rehabilitates dialectical materialism. Cloth / February 2006 Price $26.95 | ADD TO CART
The Parallax View Slavoj Žižek
In Žižek's long-awaited magnum opus, he theorizes the "parallax gap" in the ontological, the scientific, and the political—and rehabilitates dialectical materialism. Paper / April 2009 Price $14.95 | ADD TO CART
The Puppet and the Dwarf The Perverse Core of Christianity Slavoj Žižek
One of our most daring intellectuals offers a Lacanian interpretation of religion, finding that early Christianity was the first revolutionary collective. Paper / October 2003 Price $18.95 | ADD TO CART
The Shortest Shadow Nietzsche's Philosophy of the Two Alenka Zupančič
Restoring Nietzsche to a Nietzschean context—examining the definitive element that animates his work.
Paper / October 2003 Price $18.95 | ADD TO CART
The Odd One In On Comedy Alenka Zupančič
A Lacanian look at how comedy might come to philosophy's rescue, with examples ranging from Hegel and Moličre to George W. Bush and Borat. Paper / March 2008 Price $21.95 | ADD TO CART
A Voice and Nothing More Mladen Dolar
A new, philosophically grounded theory of the voice—the voice as the lever of thought, as one of the paramount embodiments of the psychoanalytic object. Paper / February 2006 Price $20.95 | ADD TO CART
