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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Brian Massumi: A User’s Guide to Capitalism and Schizophrenia. Deviations from Deleuze and Guattari (1992)

A User’s Guide to Capitalism and Schizophrenia is a playful and emphatically practical elaboration of the major collaborative work of the French philosophers Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari. When read along with its rigorous textual notes, the book also becomes the richest scholarly treatment of Deleuze’s entire philosophical oeuvre available in any language. Finally, the dozens of explicit examples that Brian Massumi furnishes from contemporary artistic, scientific, and popular urban culture make the book an important, perhaps even central text within current debates on postmodern culture and politics.

Capitalism and Schizophrenia is the general title for two books published a decade apart. The first, Anti-Oedipus, was a reaction to the events of May/June 1968; it is a critique of “state-happy” Marxism and “school-building” strains of psychoanalysis. The second, A Thousand Plateaus, is an attempt at a positive statement of the sort of nomad philosophy Deleuze and Guattari propose as an alternative to state philosophy.

Publisher MIT Press, 1992
ISBN 0262132826, 9780262132824
229 pages

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N. Katherine Hayles: My Mother Was a Computer. Digital Subjects and Literary Texts (2005)

We live in a world, according to N. Katherine Hayles, where new languages are constantly emerging, proliferating, and fading into obsolescence. These are languages of our own making: the programming languages written in code for the intelligent machines we call computers. Hayles’s latest exploration provides an exciting new way of understanding the relations between code and language and considers how their interactions have affected creative, technological, and artistic practices.

My Mother Was a Computer explores how the impact of code on everyday life has become comparable to that of speech and writing: las anguage and code have grown more entangled, the lines that once separated humans from machines, analog from digital, and old technologies from new ones have become blurred. My Mother Was a Computer gives us the tools necessary to make sense of these complex relationships. Hayles argues that we live in an age of intermediation that challenges our ideas about language, subjectivity, literary objects, and textuality. This process of intermediation takes place where digital media interact with cultural practices associated with older media, and here Hayles sharply portrays such interactions: how code differs from speech; how electronic text differs from print; the effects of digital media on the idea of the self; the effects of digitality on printed books; our conceptions of computers as living beings; the possibility that human consciousness itself might be computational; and the subjective cosmology wherein humans see the universe through the lens of their own digital age.

We are the children of computers in more than one sense, and no critic has done more than N. Katherine Hayles to explain how these technologies define us and our culture. Heady and provocative, My Mother Was a Computer will be judged as her best work yet.

Publisher University of Chicago Press, 2005
ISBN 0226321479, 9780226321479
290 pages

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