Political Jouissance

Introduction by Slavoj Zizek & Nicol A. Barria-AsenjoPreface: "Political Jouissance" by Darian LeaderPart I: Jouissance: The Political Crisis in Neoliberalism 1. On the Material Existence of Ideology, Slavoj Zizek 2. Neoliberalism, Liber-fascism and Cyber-liberalism: Modalities of Enjoying Symptoms in Current Capitalism, Jesús Ayala-Colqui and Nicol A. Barria-Asenjo 3. Mistrust and Political Jouissance: From a "Tickle" to the "Blaze of Petrol", Andrea Perunovic 4. Neoliberalism's Political Jouissance and the Environmental Crisis in Latin America, Ignacio López-Calvo 5. Hyper-Royalism: A Thai Modality of Political Jouissance, Pavin Chachavalpongpun 6. The Joy Circuit, Jens Schröter 7. Uncanny Politics. Machiavelli, Althusser and Lacan beyond Ideology, Natalia Romé 8. Necro-society and Jouissance: The Acrobat, Lilith, and the Romantic Machine, Obed Frausto 9. Jean-Luc Nancy. A Philosophy for a Transformative Existence, Francesca R. Recchia LucianiPart II: Inside and Outside the Psychoanalytic View of Politics 10. Daydream and Emancipation. Against Surplus Enjoyment, Repression and their Parallax of Lack and Excess, Nicol A. Barria-Asenjo, Slavoj Zizek, Brian Willems, Andrea Perunovic, Ruben Balotol Jr and Gonzalo Salas 11. Perverted Erotics in the Political Unconscious: Lacan and Bataille, Tim Themi 12. In the Absence of Politics: A Matter of Life and Death Drive, Daniel Bristow 13. Synchronic Interactions among Discourse, Knowledge (saber) and Jouissance. Politibiology and/or Biopolitics, Alfredo Eidelsztein14. The Jouissance of Capital: Notes for a Lacanian Critique of Political Economy, David Pavón-Cuéllar 15. Aggression & the Future, Mia Neuhaus 16. AOC and Her Boyfriend¿s Leg, Slavoj Zizek 17. Jouissance the Levinas Way, Graham Harman

Slavoj Zizek is a Hegelian philosopher, a Lacanian psychoanalyst, and a Communist. He is International Director at the Birkbeck Institute for Humanities, University of London, UK, Visiting Professor at the New York University, USA, and Senior Researcher at the Department of Philosophy, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. Nicol A. Barria-Asenjo is a writer and essayist, as well as a member of the Chilean "Le Monde Diplomatique" and "Nuestra República", Chile.