Capitalism and the New Political Unconscious

Fabio Vighi is Professor of Critical Theory and Italian at Cardiff University, UK. His previous titles include: Critical Theory and the Crisis of Contemporary Capitalism, co-authored with Heiko Feldner (Bloomsbury, 2015) and Between Urban Topographies and Political Spaces: Threshold Experiences (2014), co-edited with Alexis Nuselovici and Mauro Ponzi. Riccardo Panattoni is Professor of Moral Philosophy and Director of the Department of Human Sciences at Verona University, Italy. His previous titles include: Giorgio Agamben. La vita che prende forma (2018) and, co-edited with E. Grazioli, Live. Intensità, intermittenza, registrazione (2017).

Acknowledgements

Part I: Institutions
1. On Institutions, Roberto Esposito (University of Pisa, Scuola Normale Superiore, Italy)
2. For a Clinical Theory of the Institution, Massimo Recalcati (University of Pavia, Italy)
3. Instituting Power, Riccardo Panattoni (University of Verona, Italy)
4. Vox Populi, Vox Dei: On the Vocal Substance of the Present, Federico Leoni (University of Verona, Italy)

Part II: Ideology
5. Neo-plebs and Elites in the Global World, Matteo Vegetti (Università della Svizzera Italiana, Switzerland)
6. On the Theatricality and Historicity of the Political, Gregor Moder (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia)
7. A Critique of Biopolitics, Maurizio Lazzarato (University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France)
8. Profit, Knowledge and Jouissance: Lacan and the Logic of Action, Matteo Bonazzi (University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy)

Part III: Capitalism
9. Jansenist Morality and the Compulsion of Capitalism, Samo Tomšic (Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany)
10. Matrix Resurrections, or Jouissance as a Political Factor, Slavoj Žižek (Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, UK)
11. The Perfect Crime? Baudrillard, COVID-19, and Capitalist Virulence, Fabio Vighi (University of Cardiff, UK)
12. Capitalism and Law: from Servitude to Freedom, Todd McGowan (Vermont University, USA)

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