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Old Orders for New: Ecology, Animal Rights, and The Poverty of Humanism

Cary Wolfe reviews Luc Ferry's The New Ecological Order.

Attacked from Within

In the triad of Verso pamphlets on 9/11, Nick Spencer sees a convergence of postmodern critique (against the capitalist culture of postmodernity).

The Question of the Animal

On a posthumanism potentially worthy of the name.

‘Is it Possible Not to Love Žižek?’ on Slavoj Žižek’s Missed Encounter with Deleuze

Hanjo Berressem provides both fast-forward and slow-motion readings of Slavoj Žižek's Organs without Bodies: On Deleuze and Consequences.

What Would Žižek Do? Redeeming Christianity’s Perverse Core

Jokes play a fundamental role in Slavoj Žižek's philosophizing. Is Žižek joking when he extols the virtues of Christianity to the Left? Eric Dean Rasmussen analyzes Žižek's pro-Christian proselytizing as attacks on modes of PC-ness - political correctness and perverse Christianity - that sustain an undesirable neoliberalism.

Lynne Tillman’s Turbulent Thinking

Eric Dean Rasmussen explores Lynne Tillman's "cognitive aesthetic," suggesting that her work is powered by the generative disconnect between asignifying affect and signifying emotion. He argues that her 1998 novel, No Lease on Life, examines the role of affectively sustained universal values in responding politically to the neoliberal city.

Putting the Brakes on the Žižek Machine

Eric Dean Rasmussen traces the contours of Hanjo Berressem's rigorous, bi-tempo reading of Organs without Bodies, which finds Žižek's philosophical buggering of Deleuze to be wanting.

Critical Code Studies Conference – Week Four Discussion
Liberation Hurts: An Interview with Slavoj Žižek

Slavoj Žižek addresses the situation of post-9/11 global politics - and his own, controversial, theories of the political - in this interview with Eric Dean Rasmussen.