Contents
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
Heiko Feldner, Fabio Vighi and Slavoj Žižek
PART I
CRISES
1 The Matrix Cannot Be Reloaded: A Lacano-Marxian Perspective on the Current Economic Crisis
Heiko Feldner and Fabio Vighi
2 Still Dancing: Drive as a Category of Political Economy
Jodi Dean
3 “The Untranscendable Horizon of Our Time”: Capitalist Crisis and the Ends of Utopia
Benjamin Noys
4 The Media Crisis in Capitalism: A Report on the Evil of Banality
Paul Taylor
PART II
EVENTS
5 The Undoing of an Event
Slavoj Žižek
6 Theory Without Conscience: Hegel's Absolute Refusal of Practice
Todd McGowan
7 Affective Economies: Lacan's Four Discourses against the Historicism of Capitalist Abstraction
Yahya M. Madra and Ceren Özselçuk
8 Ocean Doesn't Live Here Anymore: Steven Soderbergh's Contagion and the Stock Market Crash
Marco Grosoli
PART III
SCENARIOS
9 Getting Its Act Together: What Chance Subtraction Under Conditions of Scarcity?
Colin Cremin
10 Class Equality and Political Justice, or Differentiation and Mediated Non-Identity? Yes, Please!
Darrow Schecter
11 An Avant-garde 'without Authority': Towards a Future Oekoumene—if there is a Future?
jan jagodzinski
12 Boris Groys' Post-Capitalist Scenario
Rex Butler
Index
Cover
Half Title
Title
Copyright
Contents
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
PART I
CRISES
1 The Matrix Cannot Be Reloaded: A Lacano-Marxian Perspective on the Current Economic Crisis
2 Still Dancing: Drive as a Category of Political Economy
3 “The Untranscendable Horizon of Our Time”: Capitalist Crisis and the Ends of Utopia
4 The Media Crisis in Capitalism: A Report on the Evil of Banality
PART II
EVENTS
5 The Undoing of an Event
6 Theory Without Conscience: Hegel's Absolute Refusal of Practice
7 Affective Economies: Lacan's Four Discourses against the Historicism of Capitalist Abstraction
8 Ocean Doesn't Live Here Anymore: Steven Soderbergh's Contagion and the Stock Market Crash
PART III
SCENARIOS
9 Getting Its Act Together: What Chance Subtraction Under Conditions of Scarcity?
10 Class Equality and Political Justice, or Differentiation and Mediated Non-Identity? Yes, Please!
11 An Avant-garde 'without Authority': Towards a Future Oekoumene—if there is a Future?
12 Boris Groys' Post-Capitalist Scenario
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Index