International Journal of Žižek Studies, Vol. 1-4 (2007-2010) [English/multiling.]

The International Journal of Žižek Studies (IJŽS) is an online, peer-reviewed academic journal devoted to investigating, elaborating, and critiquing the work of Slavoj Žižek. IJŽS is an interdisciplinary journal that is open and welcoming to diverse approaches, methodologies, interpretations, and language of composition.

Vol 4, No 4 (2010): Special Issue – Žižek’s Theology: Guest Editor – Marcus Pound
Vol 4, No 0 (2010): Žižek on Wagner
Vol 4, No 3 (2010): Latin American/Iberian Issue Part 1 [Guest Editors – Roque Farran & Imanol Galfarsoro] & General Articles
Vol 4, No 2 (2010): Žižek’s Communism – Guest Editors: Matthew Sharpe & Geoffrey Boucher
Vol 4, No 1 (2010): Žižek and Ideology – Guest Editors: Heiko Feldner and Fabio Vighi
Vol 3, No 4 (2009): Žižek in Tehran – Guest Editor Nathan Coombs
Vol 3, No 3 (2009)
Vol 3, No 2 (2009): Korean Special Issue: Guest Editor – Myoung Ah Shin
Vol 3, No 1 (2009)
Vol 2, No 4 (2008): Žižek and Lacan
Vol 2, No 3 (2008): Žižek on Video
Vol 2, No 2 (2008): Žižek and Hegel + additional papers
Vol 2, No 0 (2008): Žižek po Polsku
Vol 2, No 1 (2008): Graduate Student Special Issue
Vol 1, No 4 (2007): Zizek and Heidegger
Vol 1, No 3 (2007): Žižek and Cinema
Vol 1, No 2 (2007): Žižek & Badiou
Vol 1, No 1 (2007): Why Žižek?
Vol 1, No 0 (2007): Backstory: Previously Published Material

Edited by Paul A. Taylor and David J. Gunkel
ISSN: 1751-8229

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Nick Srnicek: Assemblage Theory, Complexity and Contentious Politics. The Political Ontology of Gilles Deleuze (2007)

The purpose of this thesis is to reconsider the nature of ontology in contemporary political science, with the belief that such a move can be of great benefit to understanding changes in our era of globalization and terrorism. This is accomplished by examining the ontologies of both social constructivism and critical realism in order to show their reliance upon illegitimate presuppositions, and then developing a novel ontological position on the basis of these criticisms.

Gilles Deleuze’s concept of assemblages – and his ontology, more generally – are examined as particularly powerful ways to conceptualize the complexity, dynamism and differences that are inherent to the political world. This is brought out concretely in a study of recent academic work on contentious politics in order to show the centrality of conflict and difference to politics, and to show the power of a reconceptualization of ontology.

Keywords: Deleuze; Bhaskar; individuation; ontology; complexity; contentious politics; critical realism; assemblages; social constructivism

Unpublished MA Thesis
The University of Western Ontario, 2007.

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Stevphen Shukaitis: Imaginal Machines: Autonomy & Self-Organization in the Revolutions of Everyday Life (2009)

“All power to the imagination? Over the past forty years to invoke the imagination as a basis for radical politics has become a cliché: a rhetorical utilization of ideas already in circulation, invoking the mythic unfolding of this self-institutionalizing process. But what exactly is radical imagination? Drawing from autonomist politics, class composition analysis, and avant-garde arts, Imaginal Machines explores the emergence, functioning, and constant breakdown of the embodied forms of radical imagination.

What does it mean to invoke the power of the imagination when it seems that the imagination has already seized power through the power of the spectacle? Does any subversive potentiality remain? Perhaps it is only honest to think in terms of a temporally-bounded subversive power. It might be that imaginal machines only work by breaking down. That is, their functioning is only possible, paradoxically, by their malfunctioning. By reopening the question of recuperation, the inevitable drive to integrate the power of social insurgency back into the working of capital and the state, we create possibilities for a politics continually reconstituted against and through the dynamics of recuperation: to keep open an antagonism without closure.”

Publisher Minor Compositions, London/NYC/Port Watson, 2009
ISBN 1570272085, 9781570272080
255 pages

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