Short Circuits
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.
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The Anaesthetics of Habit and the Logic of Breakdown
ISBN: 9780262546362
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: November 28, 2023
A theorization of habit that emphasizes its excessive and unsettling qualities rather than its mediating, adaptive, and stabilizing functions.
How to Research Like a Dog
Kafka's New Science
ISBN: 9780262543545
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: January 16, 2024
A provocative book that proposes a new and surprising inspiration for philosophy today—the canine thinker from Kafka's story “Investigations of a Dog.”
Incontinence of the Void
Economico-Philosophical Spandrels
ISBN: 9780262537063
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: February 26, 2019
The “formidably brilliant” Žižek considers sexuality, ontology, subjectivity, and Marxian critiques of political economy by way of Lacanian psychoanalysis.
The Dash—The Other Side of Absolute Knowing
The Dash—The Other Side of Absolute Knowing
ISBN: 9780262535359
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: May 4, 2018
An argument that what is usually dismissed as the “mystical shell” of Hegel's thought—the concept of absolute knowledge—is actually its most “rational kernel.”
The Parallax View
ISBN: 9780262512688
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: February 13, 2009
In Žižek's long-awaited magnum opus, he theorizes the "parallax gap" in the ontological, the scientific, and the political—and rehabilitates dialectical materialism.
Liquidation World
On the Art of Living Absently
ISBN: 9780262534192
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: September 15, 2017
An examination of the disoriented subject of modernity: a dissolute figure who makes an makes an object of its absence; from Baudelaire to Broodthaers.
What IS Sex?
ISBN: 9780262534130
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: September 8, 2017
Why sexuality is at the point of a “short circuit” between ontology and epistemology.
The Monstrosity of Christ
Paradox or Dialectic?
ISBN: 9780262516204
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: February 25, 2011
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.
A Voice and Nothing More
ISBN: 9780262541879
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: February 3, 2006
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.
All for Nothing
Hamlet's Negativity
ISBN: 9780262526340
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: August 22, 2014
Hamlet as performed by philosophers, with supporting roles played by Kant, Nietzsche, and others.
Subject Matter
The Anaesthetics of Habit and the Logic of Breakdown
ISBN: 9780262546362
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: November 28, 2023
A theorization of habit that emphasizes its excessive and unsettling qualities rather than its mediating, adaptive, and stabilizing functions.
How to Research Like a Dog
Kafka's New Science
ISBN: 9780262543545
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: January 16, 2024
A provocative book that proposes a new and surprising inspiration for philosophy today—the canine thinker from Kafka's story “Investigations of a Dog.”
Incontinence of the Void
Economico-Philosophical Spandrels
ISBN: 9780262537063
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: February 26, 2019
The “formidably brilliant” Žižek considers sexuality, ontology, subjectivity, and Marxian critiques of political economy by way of Lacanian psychoanalysis.
The Dash—The Other Side of Absolute Knowing
The Dash—The Other Side of Absolute Knowing
ISBN: 9780262535359
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: May 4, 2018
An argument that what is usually dismissed as the “mystical shell” of Hegel's thought—the concept of absolute knowledge—is actually its most “rational kernel.”
The Parallax View
ISBN: 9780262512688
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: February 13, 2009
In Žižek's long-awaited magnum opus, he theorizes the "parallax gap" in the ontological, the scientific, and the political—and rehabilitates dialectical materialism.
Liquidation World
On the Art of Living Absently
ISBN: 9780262534192
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: September 15, 2017
An examination of the disoriented subject of modernity: a dissolute figure who makes an makes an object of its absence; from Baudelaire to Broodthaers.
What IS Sex?
ISBN: 9780262534130
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: September 8, 2017
Why sexuality is at the point of a “short circuit” between ontology and epistemology.
The Monstrosity of Christ
Paradox or Dialectic?
ISBN: 9780262516204
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: February 25, 2011
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.
A Voice and Nothing More
ISBN: 9780262541879
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: February 3, 2006
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.
All for Nothing
Hamlet's Negativity
ISBN: 9780262526340
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: August 22, 2014
Hamlet as performed by philosophers, with supporting roles played by Kant, Nietzsche, and others.