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

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

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

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

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?

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

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

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.