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The Apostle of Reason: Hegel & The Desire for Emancipation in the 21st Century
Get PDFThis article critically engages Todd McGowan's book, Emancipation After Hegel. Through McGowan's book, the author offers a Marxist-Hegelian interpretation of universal emancipation elaborated through a Lacanian psychoanalytic perspective. Drawing on McGowan, the author suggests that the relevance of Hegel today only comes after we read him through Marx and Freud. The article concludes by proposing the rhetoric of Democratic Socialism as an emancipatory concept for the 21st century.https://ir.canterbury.ac.nz/handle/10092/1711
Is it Possible to Represent the Sexual Relation in Cinema? [Est-il possible de représenter le rapport sexuel au cinéma?]
Get PDFThis article offers a reflection on the Lacanian theory of the representation of the sexual relation in film. It draws on the Lacanian logic of sexuation and its interpretation by Joan Copjec and Slavoj Žižek, analyzing what the author calls the cinematic non-relation, taking as an example Alfonso Cuarón’s film Y tu mamá también (2011). The article begins by returning to the work of Laura Mulvey, who was one of the first theorists to use psychoanalysis as a political weapon to challenge the phallocentric portrayal of women in Hollywood cinema. The author argues that Mulvey was correct in her conclusions, however not with regard to the production of a “ male gaze”, but rather with regard to the cinematographic construction of male desire, which is a constitutive element of patriarchal society. The author argues that it is not by creating an “alternative” cinema, but rather developing critical theory, itself, as a political weapon that we are able to challenge the dominant ideology. It is the practice of theory that politicizes cinema and the spectator, rather than the reverse
Est-il possible de représenter le rapport sexuel au cinéma ?
No full textCet article propose une réflexion sur la théorie lacanienne de la représentation filmique du rapport sexuel. L’auteur se fonde sur la logique lacanienne de la sexuation et sur l’interprétation qu’en ont faite Joan Copjec et Slavoj Žižek pour analyser ce qu’il appelle le « cinéma masculin », en prenant notamment comme exemple le film Y tu mamá también (Et… ta mère aussi, 2011), d’Alfonso Cuarón. L’auteur considère que les conclusions de Laura Mulvey, qui a été la première à utiliser la psychanalyse comme arme politique pour contester la représentation phallocentrique des femmes dans le cinéma hollywoodien, étaient justes, non pas en ce qui concerne la production d’un « regard masculin », mais en ce qui a trait à la construction cinématographique de la jouissance masculine, qui est constitutive de la société. Il avance donc que ce n’est pas en créant un cinéma « alternatif » qu’on peut remettre en question l’idéologie dominante, mais plutôt en utilisant la théorie comme arme politique. C’est la pratique de la théorie qui politise le cinéma et le spectateur.This article discusses the Lacanian theory of the cinematic depiction of sexual relations. The author draws on the Lacanian logic of sexuation and its interpretation by Joan Copjec and Slavoj Žižek to analyze what he calls “male cinema,” taking as an example Alfonso Cuarón’s film Y tu mamá también (2011). The author finds that the conclusions of Laura Mulvey, who was the first to use psychoanalysis as a political weapon to contest the phallocentric depiction of women in Hollywood cinema, were correct, not with respect to the production of a “male gaze” but rather with respect to the cinematic construction of male pleasure, which is the basis of society. He thus argues that it is not by creating an “alternative” cinema that the dominant ideology can be called into question, but rather by using theory as a political weapon. It is the practice of theory which politicizes cinema and the spectator
Contingent encounters and retroactive signification: zooming in on the dialectical core of Zizek's film criticism
No full textGoing Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
THE ‘NIGHT OF THE WORLD’: POWER, SUBJECTION, AND CRISIS
Get PDFIn what follows, my primary objective is to argue for, and articulate, the contours of a psychoanalytic critique of ideology; then I want to add a few things about how this relates to the public support of Authority during times of economic crisis and the recent CUPE 3903 strike at York University – something of which I hope will add to a Marxian critique of ideology. The psychoanalytic critique of ideology that I defend is one that is informed by the work of the contemporary philosopher and psychoanalyst, Slavoj Žižek,whose re-interpretation of the work of the French psychoanalyst, Jacques Lacan, is enhanced by his understanding of German Idealist philosophy, from Kant, through Schelling, to Hegel. It is with Hegel that the title of my presentation, the ‘Night of theWorld’, is associated (see Žižek, Ticklish Subject).For Hegel (as read by Žižek), ‘night’ indicates something about the pre-Symbolic,or the pre-Ontological world of blind drives; or, the world prior to its linguistic/symbolic dismemberment. What I posit as crisis, or disruption – or, in the psychoanalytic sense,trauma – is an encounter with the negativity (or the ‘nothingness’, in philosophical terms)of this ‘night of the world’. As I hope to make clear, it is through disruptions, or traumas, that we can come to understand something about the truth of the existing state of things by analyzing it from the perspective of negativity – this, after all, is what dialectics is about
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
“Trump” - What does the name signify?; or, Protofascism and the Alt-Right: Three Contradictions of the Present Conjuncture.
Get PDFThis article examines the rise of the alt-right and Donald Trump’s successful campaign for president of the United States in the context of three overlapping contradictions: that of subversion in postmodern culture and politics, that between the democratic and commercial logics of the media, and that of the failure of the Left in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis. The article looks at the rise of “Trumpism” and the new brand of white nationalist and misogynistic culture of the so-called alt-right in its historical context to show how it is consistent with but also distinguished from previous right-wing ideologies. More generally, the three contradictions presented here are proposed as explanations for understanding the mainstreaming of the alt-right in contemporary politics and culture.https://read.dukeupress.edu/cultural-politics/article/14/1/1/134199/TrumpWhat-Does-the-Name-Signify-or-ProtofascismPostprin
Freedom and Alienation; Or, Humanism of the Non-All
Get PDFToday, the popular concept of the Anthropocene, used to denote the human geological age, puts to question the centrality of human subjectivity as an ethical agency. Critical posthumanism, in this context, demands the de-centring of the human subject, which in its apparently hubristic disregard for the non-human, seems to have set the world on fire. But what if the human subject is already constitutively de-centred and selfalienated? What purpose is served by aiming to de-centre the already de-centred subject? Beginning with Freudian and Marxist conceptions of a social humanity, this article ties together Hegelian and Lacanian conceptions of ontological incompleteness to argue that it is precisely in our constitutive alienation that we discover the freedom required for ethical action. In contrast to posthumanist and Marxist humanist conceptions of subjectivity, the article shows that it is precisely in the movement from the hysterical discourse to the analytical discourse, in the Lacanian sense, and with it the Hegelian conception of love, that we may discover a dialectical humanism capable of helping us to grapple with the material conditions that plague us today.SSHRC 430-2020-00738https://problemi.si/issues/p2022-5/06_problemi_international_2022_5_flisfeder.pd
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