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'An exciting, astute analysis of how our capacity for desire has
been slotted into the grooves of digital capitalism, and made to
work for profit - from porn to Pokemon' - Richard Seymour We are in
the middle of a 'desirevolution' - a fundamental and political
transformation of the way we desire as human beings. Perhaps as
always, new technologies - with their associated and inherited
political biases - are organising and mapping the future. What we
don't seem to notice is that the primary way in which our lives are
being transformed is through the manipulation and control of desire
itself. Our very impulses, drives and urges are 'gamified' to suit
particular economic and political agendas, changing the way we
relate to everything from lovers and friends to food and
politicians. Digital technologies are transforming the subject at
the deepest level of desire - re-mapping its libidinal economy - in
ways never before imagined possible. From sexbots to smart condoms,
fitbits to VR simulators and AI to dating algorithms, the 'love
industries' are at the heart of the future smart city and the
social fabric of everyday life. This book considers these emergent
technologies and what they mean for the future of love, desire,
work and capitalism.
'An exciting, astute analysis of how our capacity for desire has
been slotted into the grooves of digital capitalism, and made to
work for profit - from porn to Pokemon' - Richard Seymour We are in
the middle of a 'desirevolution' - a fundamental and political
transformation of the way we desire as human beings. Perhaps as
always, new technologies - with their associated and inherited
political biases - are organising and mapping the future. What we
don't seem to notice is that the primary way in which our lives are
being transformed is through the manipulation and control of desire
itself. Our very impulses, drives and urges are 'gamified' to suit
particular economic and political agendas, changing the way we
relate to everything from lovers and friends to food and
politicians. Digital technologies are transforming the subject at
the deepest level of desire - re-mapping its libidinal economy - in
ways never before imagined possible. From sexbots to smart condoms,
fitbits to VR simulators and AI to dating algorithms, the 'love
industries' are at the heart of the future smart city and the
social fabric of everyday life. This book considers these emergent
technologies and what they mean for the future of love, desire,
work and capitalism.
In a world dominated by capitalism which is dangerously sliding
into a new kind of fascism, Srecko Horvat's new book explores the
concept of subverting the dominant paradigm in politics, technology
and love. Drawing from his own experience of participating in
different protest movements all around the world, working closely
with WikiLeaks and being one of the protagonists of the Democracy
in Europe Movement 2025, Horvat resists the prevailing melancholy
of the Left by offering new political imagination beyond
traditional concepts. Instead of the tension between horizontal
movements or vertical political parties, Subversion" opts for a
radical dialectics of both methods as the only way out of our
current deadlock. If there is a crack in everything, the way to use
the light that gets in is constructive subversion.
Using Lacanian psychoanalysis, as well as its pre-history and
afterlives, In the Event of Laughter argues for a new framework for
discussing laughter. Responding to a tradition of 'comedy studies'
that has been interested only in the causes of laughter (in why we
laugh), it proposes a different relationship between laughter and
causality. Ultimately it argues that laughter is both cause and
effect, troubling chronological time and asking for a more nuanced
way of conceiving the relationship between subjects and their
laughter than existing theories have accounted for. Making this
visible via psychoanalytic ideas of retroactivity, Alfie Bown
explores how laughter - far from being a mere response to a
stimulus - changes the relationship between the present, the past
and the future. Bown investigates this hypothesis in relation to a
range of comic texts from the 'history of laughter,' discussing
Chaucer, Shakespeare, Kafka and Chaplin, as well as lesser-known
but vital figures from the comic genre.
Using Lacanian psychoanalysis, as well as its pre-history and
afterlives, In the Event of Laughter argues for a new framework for
discussing laughter. Responding to a tradition of 'comedy studies'
that has been interested only in the causes of laughter (in why we
laugh), it proposes a different relationship between laughter and
causality. Ultimately it argues that laughter is both cause and
effect, troubling chronological time and asking for a more nuanced
way of conceiving the relationship between subjects and their
laughter than existing theories have accounted for. Making this
visible via psychoanalytic ideas of retroactivity, Alfie Bown
explores how laughter - far from being a mere response to a
stimulus - changes the relationship between the present, the past
and the future. Bown investigates this hypothesis in relation to a
range of comic texts from the 'history of laughter,' discussing
Chaucer, Shakespeare, Kafka and Chaplin, as well as lesser-known
but vital figures from the comic genre.
Using a range of 'case studies' from Critical Theory to Candy
Crush, 'Gangnam Style' to Game of Thrones and Football Manager to
Hieronymus Bosch, this book argues that we need to rethink our
enjoyment. Inspired by psychoanalysis, the book offers a new way of
thinking about how we talk about what we enjoy and how we enjoy
what we talk about.
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