The quilting point was introduced in Jacques Lacan’s 1956 seminar on psychoses. He defined the quilting point as a kind of „anchor“ or „button“ that stitches together the flux of signification. We can understand this in both a general and specific …
Frederic Jameson is quite right when he writes that the substitution of economics by politics is the usual means of all attacks on Marxism, i.e. the liquidation of Marxist critique and analysis of the capital economy and the consequent concentration …
The digital network that sustains the functioning of our societies as well as their control mechanisms is the ultimate figure of the technical grid that sustains power – and does this not confer a new lease of life on Trotsky’s …
Isn’t the emphasis on the systemic character of capitalism what separates Marx’s analysis from moralizing socialism?) The idea that the misleadingly-named ‘ruling class’ do anything more than manage and adminster Capital is an idle fantasy. Capitalists can decide on which …
I promised another post on fictions, but first, and by means of introduction, a few more remarks on populism, prompted by Bat at Lenin’s Tomb, Jon at Posthegemonic Musings, Le Colonel Chabert and Kenneth Rufo at Ghost in the Wire. …
Conclusion: Vacation as fetish To Žižek, a fetish is an ‘embodiment of the Lie which enables us to sustain the unbearable truth’ (Žižek, 2001b: 13). The subject ‘rationally’ accepts the truth, yet is only able to do so because she …
Wie eine linksliberale Moralisierungsstrategie den Rechten in die Hände arbeitet “Private Helfer retten Flüchtlinge und Migranten im Mittelmeer aus Seenot. Ist das legitim? Ein Pro und Contra” – diese Einleitung einer Debatte über die europäische Flüchtlingspolitik in der Wochenzeitung “Die …
Without doubt, the cogent interlacing of Lacanian theorization with Hegelianism manifests Žižek’s prowess in articulating a highly pertinent critique of ideology for our epoch, but whether this comes from a position of Marxist orthodoxy or a position of a Lacanian …
[Slavoj Žižek: Organs without Bodies: On Deleuze and Consequences (New York: Routledge, 2003)] The following text can be read fast-forward or in slow-motion. The fast-forward version provides the main argument, the slow-motion version provides the argument plus more detailed commentaries. …
„is it possible not to love žižek?“ on slavoj žižek’s missed encounter with deleuze