INCONTINENCE OF THE VOID

If the most interesting theoretical interventions emerge today from the interspaces between fields, then the foremost interspaceman is Slavoj iek. In Incontinence of the Void (the title is inspired by a sentence in Samuel Beckett's late masterpiece Ill Seen Ill Said), iek explores the empty spaces between philosophy, psychoanalysis, and the critique of political economy. He proceeds from t he universal dimension of philosophy to the particular dimension of sexuality to the singular dimension of the critique of political economy. The ...[Llegir més]