How can we save politics from the politician? How can we save ourselves? This book looks at the example of those who leave the city and break the social contract, rebellious exiles and freedom fighters escaping the wheel of necessity, and learns from them.
Introduction: Art, Politics and Infinite Critique
Chapter 1. Archaic Objects
Chapter 2. Uncanny Encounters
Chapter 3. An Introduction to Fetishism (With a Plea for Materialism)
Chapter 4. The Most Sublime of Fetishists
Chapter 5. Let Us Make Love (And Listen To Death From Above): Notes on Psychoanalysis
Chapter 6. The Love that Seeks No Other: Further Notes &
Chapter 7. Horror in Philosophy
Chapter 8. Rip It Up and Start Again
Chapter 9. Sex, Laws & Rock n Roll: On Music as an Organising Principle
Chapter 10. Guevaras Choice: On Revolution as a Radical Organising Principle
Although social revolution is supposed to come from the people, theorists as a rule ignore the complex set of popular myths, beliefs and practices which constitute the actual ideology of common people. In a close analysis of the Latin American scene, Oscar brings these two dimensions together, and the result of their short-circuit is a shattering explosion from which the theory of ideology will never be able to recuperate and regain its comfortable peace.
Slavoj Zizek, author of The Parallax View, and How To Read Lacan.
Being Against the World unveils a world of multiple ontologies that is rendered credible by a novel materialist realism, one that finally leaves behind the division between observer and reality that has been central to all modern ways of thinking and social design. Building bridges between the most farsighted intellectual and political currents in the Global North and the Global South, Guardiola makes a rigld
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