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How To Research Like A Dog - Kafka''S New Science

by Aaron Schuster

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 A provocative book that proposes a new and surprising inspiration for philosophy today the canine thinker from Kafka s story 'Investigations of a Dog.'
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Emperor'S New Nudity - The Return Of Authoritarianism And The Digital Obscene

by Yuval Kremnitzer

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 An analysis of contemporary authoritarianism and the medium in which it flourishes, the internet, and what lies at the complex intersection of authority and technology.
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Subject Matter - The Anaesthetics Of Habit And The Logic Of Breakdown

by Aron Vinegar

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 A theorization of habit that emphasizes its excessive and unsettling qualities rather than its mediating, adaptive, and stabilizing functions.Subject Matter offers a bold counterpoint to prevalent conceptions of habit characterized by bodily fluidity and ease, as the stabilizing foundation of an emerging subjectivity, or, more negatively, as a numbing and deadening force. Instead of facilitating the coordination of action with goal and self with environment, habit appears here as a disruptively recursive operation with extreme ontological implications that are often more quotidian than exceptional. Vinegar theorizes habit''s more perturbing aspects, from repetition compulsion to kenosis to breakdown, through an encounter between Hegel''s philosophy (of habit), psychoanalytic dimensions of repetition, Tom McCarthy''s novel Remainder, and Omer Fast''s feature-length film interpretation of the novel.Vinegar starts with the premise that habit is an "unhappy mediator," a disturbance of the very medium and milieu that is constitutive of the subject. Subject Matter pays close attention to those aspects of habit that are usually considered deviations from, or potential threats to, habit proper and that generate a logic of breakdown: automaticity, mechanization, thingness, inertia, and fixity. By plotting a topology of habit''s unbearability through detailed accounts of its manifestation in writing, art, aesthetics, and visuality—and through an attentiveness to the unbalanced nonrelations between mediation and immediacy, being and having, fixity and fluidity, vanishing and overflowing, abbreviation and excess, beginning and ending—Vinegar exposes habit''s failure to mediate and inhabit. In doing so, he offers new and counterintuitive insights into how habit generates the unruly grounds it is supposed to settle, thus allowing us to ask how we might break down differently.
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Liquidation World - On The Art Of Living Absently

by Alexi Kukuljevic

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 An examination of the disoriented subject of modernity: a dissolute figure who makes an makes an object of its absence; from Baudelaire to Broodthaers.In Liquidation World, Alexi Kukuljevic examines a distinctive form of subjectivity animating the avant-garde: that of the darkly humorous and utterly disoriented subject of modernity, a dissolute figure that makes an art of its own vacancy, an object of its absence. Shorn of the truly rotten illusion that the world is a fulfilling and meaningful place, these subjects identify themselves by a paradoxical disidentification—through the objects that take their places. They have mastered the art of living absently, of making something with nothing. Traversing their own morbid obsessions, they substitute the nonsensical for sense, the ridiculous for the meaningful.Kukuljevic analyzes a series of artistic practices that illuminate this subjectivity, ranging from Marcel Duchamp''s Three Standard Stoppages to Charles Baudelaire''s melancholia. He considers the paradox of Duchamp''s apparatus in the Stoppages and the strange comedy of Marcel Broodthaers''s relation to the readymade; the comic subject in Jacques Vaché and the ridiculous subject in Alfred Jarry; the nihilist in Paul Valéry''s Monsieur Teste; Oswald Wiener''s interpretation of the dandy; and Charles Baudelaire as a happy melancholic. Along the way, he also touches on the work of Thomas Bernhard, Andy Kaufman, Buster Keaton, and others. Finally, he offers an extended analysis of Danny''s escape from his demented father in Stanley Kubrick''s The Shining. Each of these subjects is, in Freud''s terms, sick—sick in the specific sense that they assume the absence of meaning and the liquidation of value in the world. They concern themselves with art, without assuming its value or meaning. Utterly debased, fundamentally disoriented, they take the void as their medium.
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Not-Two - Logic And God In Lacan

by Lorenzo Chiesa

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 A philosophical examination of the treatment of logic and God in Lacan''s later psychoanalytic theory.In The Not-Two, Lorenzo Chiesa examines the treatment of logic and God in Lacan''s later work. Chiesa draws for the most part from Lacan''s Seminars of the early 1970s, as they revolve around the axiom "There is no sexual relationship." Chiesa provides both a close reading of Lacan''s effort to formalize sexual difference as incompleteness and an assessment of its broader implications for philosophical realism and materialism.Chiesa argues that "There is no sexual relationship" is for Lacan empirically and historically circumscribed by psychoanalysis, yet self-evident in our everyday lives. Lacan believed that we have sex because we love, and that love is a desire to be One in face of the absence of the sexual relationship. Love presupposes a real "not-two." The not-two condenses the idea that our love and sex lives are dictated by the impossibility of fusing man''s contradictory being with the heteros of woman as a fundamentally uncountable Other. Sexual liaisons are sustained by a transcendental logic, the so-called phallic function that attempts to overcome this impossibility. Chiesa also focuses on Lacan''s critical dialogue with modern science and formal logic, as well as his dismantling of sexuality as considered by mainstream biological discourse. Developing a new logic of sexuation based on incompleteness requires the relinquishing of any alleged logos of life and any teleological evolution.For Lacan, the truth of incompleteness as approached psychoanalytically through sexuality would allow us to go further in debunking traditional onto-theology and replace it with a "para-ontology" yet to be developed. Given the truth of incompleteness, Chiesa asks, can we think such a truth in itself without turning incompleteness into another truth about truth, that is, into yet another figure of God as absolute being?
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Puppet And The Dwarf - The Perverse Core Of Christianity

by Slavoj Žižek

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 In this volume Slavoj Zizek offers a close reading of today's religious constellation from the viewpoint of Lacanian psychoanalysis.
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Interface Fantasy - A Lacanian Cyborg Ontology

by André Nusselder

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 Behind our computer screens we are all cyborgs: through fantasy we can understand our involvement in virtual worlds.
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Dash-The Other Side Of Absolute Knowing

by Frank Ruda e Rebecca Comay

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 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."
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Incontinence Of The Void - Economico-Philosophical Spandrels

by Slavoj Žižek

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 The "formidably brilliant" Zizek considers sexuality, ontology, subjectivity, and Marxian critiques of political economy by way of Lacanian psychoanalysis.
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What Is Sex?

by Alenka Zupancic

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 Why sexuality is at the point of a â€œshort circuitâ€ between ontology and epistemology.
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All For Nothing - Hamlet''S Negativity

by Andrew Cutrofello

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 Hamlet as performed by philosophers, with supporting roles played by Kant, Nietzsche, and others.
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Odd One In - On Comedy

by Alenka Zupancic

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 Considers how philosophy and psychoanalysis can help us understand the movement and the logic involved in the practice of comedy, and how comedy can help philosophy and psychoanalysis recognize some of the crucial mechanisms and vicissitudes of what is called humanity.
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Subjectivity And Otherness - A Philosophical Reading Of Lacan

by Lorenzo Chiesa

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 The evolution of the concept of subjectivity in the works of Jacques Lacan.Countering the call by some "pro-Lacanians" for an end to the exegesis of Lacan''s work—and the dismissal by "anti-Lacanians" of Lacan as impossibly impenetrable—Subjectivity and Otherness argues for Lacan as a "paradoxically systematic" thinker, and for the necessity of a close analysis of his texts. Lorenzo Chiesa examines, from a philosophical perspective, the evolution of the concept of subjectivity in Lacan''s work, carrying out a detailed reading of the Lacanian subject in its necessary relation to otherness according to Lacan''s orders of the Imaginary, the Symbolic, and the Real. Chiesa emphasizes the continuity underlying apparently incompatible phases of Lacan''s examination of the subject, describing Lacan''s theory as a consistent philosophical system—but one that is constantly revised and therefore problematic. Chiesa analyzes each "old" theory of the subject within the framework of a "new" elaboration and reassesses its fundamental tenets from the perspective of a general psychoanalytic discourse that becomes increasingly complex. From the 1960s on, writes Chiesa, the Lacanian subject amounts to an irreducible lack that must be actively confronted and assumed; this "subjectivized lack," Chiesa argues further, offers an escape from the contemporary impasse between the "death of the subject" alleged by postmodernism and a return to a traditional "substantialist" notion of the subject. An original treatment of psychoanalytic issues, Subjectivity and Otherness fills a significant gap in the existing literature on Lacan, taking seriously the need for a philosophical investigation of Lacanian concepts.
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Voice And Nothing More

by Mladen Dolar

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 Goes beyond Derrida's idea of "phonocentrism", and revives and develops Lacan's claim that the voice is one of the paramount embodiments of the psychoanalytic object. This book investigates the object voice on a number of different levels, and scrutinises the uses of the voice in Freud and Kafka.
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Parallax View

by Slavoj Žižek

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 Theorises the "parallax gap" in the ontological, the scientific, and the political, and rehabilitates dialectical materialism. This book describes parallax as the apparent displacement of an object, caused by a change in observational position. It focuses on three main modes of parallax.
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Monstrosity Of Christ - Paradox Or Dialectic?

by John Milbank e Slavoj Žižek

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 Argues that theology is the only foundation upon which knowledge, politics, and ethics can stand. This book concerns the future of religion, secularity, and political hope in light of a monsterful event - God becoming human.
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What Is Sex?

by Alenka (Senior Research Fellow, Filozofski Institut Zrc Sazu) Zupancic

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 Why sexuality is at the point of a â€œshort circuitâ€ between ontology and epistemology.
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Trouble With Pleasure - Deleuze And Psychoanalysis

by Aaron Schuster

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 An investigation into the strange and troublesome relationship to pleasure that defines the human being, drawing on the disparate perspectives of Deleuze and Lacan.
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Lacan At The Scene

by Henry Bond

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 A Lacanian approach to murder scene investigation.
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The Parallax View

by Slavoj Žižek

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Disâ€¦Miss Gender?

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Code To Joy - Why Everyone Should Learn A Little Programming

by Michael L. Littman

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Subject Matter - The Anaesthetics Of Habit And The Logic Of Breakdown

by Aron Vinegar

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A Mistletoe Kiss In Manhattan / The Prince'S One-Night Baby - A Mistletoe Kiss In Manhattan / The Prince'S One-Night Baby

by Juliette Hyland e Traci Douglass

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 The surgeon grinch who stole her heart! Tasked with granting a sick child a Christmas wish, ER nurse Emma can think of no better person to help her pull it off than wealthy New York cardiothoracic surgeon, Thad. His reputation as a grinch precedes him, but Emma is undeterred!
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