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27The symbolic, the sublime, and Slavoj Žižek's theory of filmPalgrave-Macmillan. 2012.From film theory to post-theory -- Sublime objects of cinema -- Class struggle in film studies -- Interlude: the pervert and the analyst -- Cinema, ideology, and form -- Enjoyment in the cinema -- Conclusion: theory as realism set in drive.
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19Political theory and film: From Adorno to ŽižekContemporary Political Theory 18 (4): 255-258. 2019.
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16Postmodern Marxism Today: Jameson, Žižek, and the Demise of Symbolic EfficiencyInternational Journal of Žižek Studies 13 (1). 2019.Communism as our new common sense master code arises in Jameson and Žižek’s recent projects, from Žižek’s volumes on The Idea of Communism, to Jameson’s essay “An American Utopia”. What they both continue to demonstrate is that in the face of the absolute foreclosure of the signifier, the deadlocks of capitalist exploitation, as well as its own inherent internal contradictions, can only go on and transform into absolute excess. As Žižek has put it, “when people tell me that nothing can be change…Read more
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14There is no metalanguage; or, Truth has the structure of a fiction: The Žižekian system, between post-ideology and post-truthEnrahonar: Quaderns de Filosofía 70 171-185. 2023.This article examines Slavoj Žižek’s overall approach to the critique of ideology. His Hegelian-Lacanian approach to ideology criticism is addressed by looking at the historical shift from the problem of post-ideology to that of post-Truth. In the process, this article explains simply Žižek’s brand of ideology criticism.
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11Zizek and Media Studies: A Reader (edited book)Palgrave-Macmillan. 2014.Since the early 1970s, film, media, and cultural theorists have appealed to Lacanian psychoanalytic theory in order to discern processes of subjectivization, representation, and ideological interpellation. However, beginning with the work of theorists such as Jacqueline Rose, Joan Copjec, and Slavoj Žižek, a new approach to Lacan has been advanced, one which pays closer attention to concepts such as sexual difference, the 'objet petit a', fantasy, the Real, enjoyment, and the drive. Žižek in par…Read more
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8Agon Hamza and Frank Ruda (eds), Slavoj Žižek and Dialectical Materialism (review)Critical Research on Religion 5 (1): 94-98. 2017.
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5Political theory and film: From Adorno to ŽižekContemporary Political Theory 18 (4): 255-258. 2019.
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1Morality or Enjoyment? On Althusser’s Ideological Supplement of the LawMediations 30 (2). 2017.What happens when interpellation fails? Matthew Flisfeder suggests that in the current moment, “even the call of the moral supplement towards conscience and duty itself begins to break down under the continuous revolutionary thrust of the capitalist mode of production — that is, its need to break down its own limits and barriers in the further pursuit of profit.”
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Between Theory and Post-Theory; or, Slavoj Zizek in Film Studies and OutCanadian Journal of Film Studies 20 (2): 75-94. 2011.
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Enjoying social mediaIn Matthew Flisfeder & Louis-Paul Willis (eds.), Zizek and Media Studies: A Reader, Palgrave-macmillan. 2014.
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Reading Emancipation Backwards: Laclau, Žižek and the Critique of Ideology in Emancipatory PoliticsInternational Journal of Žižek Studies 2 (1): 1-21. 2008.This article investigates the work of Žižek and Ernesto Laclau on the topic of Emancipatory politics. Although the positions of each on this topic has recently been criticized by the other, the aim here is to locate the elements that can allow both positions to converge for the purpose of conducting ideological critique of the logic of emancipation and the necessity of utopia. In focusing on this debate, the opposition between populism and class struggle is considered, as well as notions of the …Read more
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Class Struggle and Displacement: Slavoj Zizek and Film TheoryCultural Politics 5 (3): 299-324. 2008.
Matthew Flisfeder
The University of Winnipeg
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The University of WinnipegAssociate Professor
Areas of Specialization
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Karl Marx |
G. W. F. Hegel |
Louis Althusser |
Walter Benjamin |
Gilles Deleuze |
Michel Foucault |
Jacques Lacan |
Zizek: Political Philosophy |
Zizek: Psychoanalysis |