This review reads two recent books that approach the Internet through Marxist and psychoanalytic theory, Matthew Flisfeder’s Algorithmic Desire: Toward a New Structuralist Theory of Social Media Clint Burnham’s Does Have an Unconscious? Slavoj Žižek Digital Culture. The latter allows us to grasp structured discourse produces subject, while former subject’s excess signals lack in as social struc...

This article gives a comparative analysis of the way in which Lacanian psychoanalysis and Alain Badiou’s mathematical ontology understand the category of the real, respectively, as the foundation of individual subjectivity or the name of being-as-being. A number of shifts in focus arise from the fundamental difference in the location of the void: from the individual act to the collective event;...

It is often assumed that the problem with ‘virtual reality’ – the concept, its various technological deployments and the apparently oxymoronic phrase itself – has been our understanding, or perhaps misunderstanding, of the virtual. The real problem, however, is not with the virtual; it is with the real itself. This article investigates the undeniably useful but ultimately mistaken and somewhat ...

Denna artikel tar sin utgångspunkt i ett skifte inom retorikämnets demokratiförståelse där agonistiskt eller antagonistiskt perspektiv alltmer kommit att ersätta det konsensusinriktade demokratibegrepp som tidigare varit dominerande. Mer specifikt handlar om hur denna förändrade påverkar analysen av populistisk retorik då den, ramen för detta nya perspektiv, inte längre kan avfärdas otvetydigt ...

Este estudo apresenta uma releitura do romance Cinzas Norte, de Milton Hatoum, sob o viés Materialismo Lacaniano, e discute conceito discurso mestre, desenvolvido pelo psicanalista francês Jacques Lacan, bem como os conceitos violência Objetiva Subjetiva, desenvolvidos filósofo esloveno Slavoj Žižek. Trata-se um bibliográfico cunho interpretativo, por meio qual se objetiva evidenciar que, no é ...

This article presents conceptual bridges that exist between the philosophy of G.W.F Hegel and a feminist ethics care. To do so, it engages with Slavoj Žižek’s contemporary reading in concert existing interpretations Hegel’s thought. The goal doing so is to demonstrate how both Žižek selection critical thinkers interpret perspective on nature subjectivity, intersubjective relations relationship ...