Organs without Bodies On Deleuze and Consequences [Paperback]

With a new introduction by the author

In this deliciously polemical work, a giant of cultural theory immerses himself in the ideas of a giant of French thought. In his inimical style, Zizek links Deleuze's work with both Oedipus and Hegel, figures from whom the French philosopher distanced himself. Zizek turns some Deleuzian concepts around in order to explore the 'organs without bodies' in such films as Fight Club and the works of Hitchcock. Finally, he attacks what he sees as the 'radical chic' Deleuzians, arguing that such projects turn Deleuze into an ideologist of today's 'digital capitalism'. With his brilliant energy and fearless argumentation, Zizek sets out to restore a truer, more radical Deleuze than the one we thought we knew.

Introduction  Deleuze  The Reality of the Virtual  Becoming versus History
Becoming-Machine   Un jour, peut-etre, le siecle sera empiriomoniste?  Quasi Cause  Is It Possible Not to Love Spinoza?  Kant, Hegel  Hegel 1: Taking Deleuze from Behind  Hegel 2: From Epistemology to Ontology.and back  Hegel 3: the Minimal Difference  The Torsion of Meaning  A Comic Hegelian Interlude: Dumb and Dumber  The Becoming-Oedipal Deleuze  Phallus  Fantasy  RIS  Consequences  1. Science: Cognitivism with Freud  Autopoiesis   Memes, Memes Everywhere  Against Hyphen-Ethics  Cognitive Closure  Little Jolts of Enjoyment   2. Art: The Talking Heads  Kino-Eye
  Hitchcock as Anti-Plato  The Cut of the Gaze  When the Fantasy Falls Apart  I, the Truth, am Speaking   Beyond Morality  3. Politics: A Plea for Cultural Revolution&lC,