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        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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        Incontinence of the Void

        Incontinence of the Void

        Incontinence of the Void

        Economico-Philosophical Spandrels

        by Slavoj Žižek

        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

        The Dash—The Other Side of Absolute Knowing

        by Rebecca Comay and Frank Ruda

        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

        The Parallax View

        The Parallax View

        by Slavoj Žižek

        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

        Liquidation World

        Liquidation World

        On the Art of Living Absently

        by Alexi Kukuljevic

        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?

        What IS Sex?

        What IS Sex?

        by Alenka Zupančič

        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

        The Monstrosity of Christ

        The Monstrosity of Christ

        Paradox or Dialectic?

        by Slavoj Žižek and John Milbank

        Edited by Creston Davis

        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

        A Voice and Nothing More

        A Voice and Nothing More

        by Mladen Dolar

        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

        All for Nothing

        All for Nothing

        Hamlet's Negativity

        by Andrew Cutrofello

        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.
        Lacan at the Scene

        Lacan at the Scene

        Lacan at the Scene

        by Henry Bond

        Foreword by Slavoj Žižek

        ISBN: 9780262518086

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: September 14, 2012

        A Lacanian approach to murder scene investigation.
        Interface Fantasy

        Interface Fantasy

        Interface Fantasy

        A Lacanian Cyborg Ontology

        by André Nusselder

        ISBN: 9780262513005

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: September 11, 2009

        Behind our computer screens we are all cyborgs: through fantasy we can understand our involvement in virtual worlds.
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