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Jason Wakefield

Cambridge University
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Cambridge, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Areas of Specialization
Philosophy of Language
Areas of Interest
European Philosophy
  • The Ticklish Review
    International Journal of Žižek Studies 4 (4). 2010.
    The Ticklish Subject claims to unearth a subversive core in the spectre of the Cartesian subject; finding a philosophical point of reference in it for a genuine emancipatory politics. After reading the entire book closely, this synopsis by the publisher seems slightly incorrect and perhaps even misleading. There is very little emancipatory politics, if any at all. There is some sense of a partial liberation from the current global political climate; but this dimension is relegated in importance …Read more
    Slavoj Zizek
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    Everyday Life and Imperial Thoughts
    Dasein Project 1 (1). 2013.
    Freud’s 'The Psychopathology of Everyday Life' was one of the most widely translated and circulated works of German psychology in the last century. This psychoanalytic and clinical approach to analyzing the brain has now been superseded by neuro-scientific techniques of analysis. Once you master neuro-hacking data, you can broadcast people's private, internal thoughts (without their consent) and other brain waves – as an audio signal in a frequency of your choice. Synapse-hacking is juxtaposed w…Read more
    Neuroscience of Ethics
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    Mrs. Dalloway's Existential Temporality
    Cosmos and History 9 (2): 60-67. 2013.
    Using Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway as primary text to illuminate the human experience of time, it is argued against T. Armstrong (in Modernism) that the depiction of time by Modernist writers such as Woolf is Heideggerian rather than Bergsonian. This study is used to reveal the originality of Heidegger as opposed to Bergson, whose ideas on time, it is suggested, are merely an accumulation of traces of previous ideas on time. Drawing on Aristotle's Metaphysica, De Interpretatione, Ethico Nicoma…Read more
    European PhilosophyFrench Philosophy