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Phantasmagoria of the Thing: Aporias of the New Capitalist Discourse

Federico ChicchiUniversità di Bologna Volume 9, 2016 Liberation from a merely psychological point of view occurs by moving towards the recognition that the “collapse of the world” means the irruption, the advent of a ‘New Time’. (E. De Martino, La fine del mondo) 1. Phantasmagoria of the Thing 1.1. Capitalism as Commodification of the Living Capitalism...

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Laclau with Freud, or the Path Towards Psychoanalysis as General Ontology

Paula Biglieri & Gloria PerellóUniversidad de Buenos Aires Volume 9, 2016 Introduction Ernesto Laclau developed his theory of hegemony in response to his concerns about some basic tenets of classical Marxism. In his eagerness to move beyond the essentialist ontology that had already assumed what the objective laws governing historical development were (who its leading subject...

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The Scene of Politics in an Atonal World: Hegemony, Contagion, Spectrality

Laura BazzicalupoUniversità di Salerno Volume 9, 2016 Introduction: The Displacement of the Political A powerful injection of Lacanian theory in the study of political thought has paved the way for new perspectives in the analysis of today’s world and new tools for thinking political subjectivation. The outcome has been the formulation of a more complex, dynamic...