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.
Series editor: Mladen Dolar, Alenka Zupančič, & Slavoj Žižek
Nov 14, 2023
Feb 26, 2019
The Dash—The Other Side of Absolute Knowing
May 04, 2018
Sep 15, 2017
Sep 08, 2017
Apr 08, 2016
Feb 26, 2016
Aug 22, 2014
Sep 14, 2012
Feb 25, 2011
Aug 27, 2010
Sep 11, 2009
Feb 13, 2009
Feb 08, 2008
Sep 28, 2007
Feb 03, 2006
Oct 14, 2005
May 06, 2005
Sep 26, 2003
Aug 29, 2003