Libidinal Economies of Crisis Times : The Psychic Life of Contemporary Capitalism / Ben Gook

Libido, Economy, Crisis -- The libidinal as an expanded field -- Intensified zones of attachment: desires and drives -- Libido, in this economy -- Crises in / of libido -- References -- Axioms of Libidinal Economy -- References -- “Out of Your System”: After Lyotard’s Libidinal Set‐Ups -- 1968: “March 23” -- Globalisation: “Deluge Warning” -- “The system” and the question of terror: “Survivor” -- References -- Negative Solidarity: The Affective Economy in Neoliberalism’s Decline -- Affective economy: A definition -- Negative solidarity -- Affective economy/mythic economy -- References -- The Antisociality of Capitalism (Some Preliminary Reflections) -- Marx, Freud, and the antisocial -- Ressentimental economy -- From Bentham to Sade -- References -- Becoming a Master of an Island Again: On the Desire to be Bodiless -- Bodies and fantasies -- Fiction: The mariner of York -- Fiction: An individual as homo economicus, as homo politicus -- Robinson’s body and the fantasies of bodilessness -- References -- Erotics as First Philosophy: Metaphysics and/of Desire between Aristotle, Avicenna, Cavendish, and Spinoza -- The problematicity of being -- Theories of desire -- Where being meets desire -- The univocity of being -- The univocity of causation -- The inexistence of negativity -- The eclipse of existence -- Seduction as erotic deflection -- Summary and conclusion -- References -- The Unconscious Freedom of Our Libidinal Economy, or, Existentialism After Freud -- The unconscious wrench -- The self‐interested liberal -- Driven to tears -- Free capitulation -- The limits of finitude -- Third first -- Destroying freedom -- References -- What is the Libidinal Economy of Antiblackness? -- References -- A Jouissance Beyond Capitalism: Lacan, the Feminist Critique, and the Libidinal Economy of Capitalism -- Bataille and the critique of labour society -- Eating fresh brains -- How to enjoy capitalism -- The inherent patriarchy of Capital -- Genre trouble -- Does capitalism conclude castration? -- References -- Karatani for Libidinal Economy: Invariance and Praxis -- Libidinal dialectic of history: Death drive and superego -- Understanding modes of exchange -- Karatani’s praxis: Associationism -- References -- Datamining Desire: Short‐Circuits in the Libidinal Economy -- New intrusions -- I’m so tired, I’ve been desiring all day! -- Lack of lack and its consequences -- The enterprise of influence -- Perform and obey -- Disciplining the nervous system -- The crisis of the symbolic as a crisis of desire -- The horror of deterritorialisation -- Desiring misery -- A realm between two deaths -- The people desired quarantine? -- Monetised intimacy -- Parasocial jouissance -- TFW no internal good objects -- The task of loving -- References -- 1/0: Structuring Freedom Through the Digital Binary -- On the digital binary -- Structure/structurelessness -- Materiality of the binary: The signifier falls into the signified -- Deleuzian affirmationism versus Lacanian lack -- Analogue ethics and affirmative monism -- The choice of the cut -- The binary logic of the true infinite -- References -- Deviant and Diseased: Metaphors of Crisis and the Sexual Semantics of Excess and Perversion -- Sane and straight economies versus diseased and deviant economies -- Cycles of capitalist crises: Othering economies -- Crisis of desire: Rhetoric of resentment and reactionary reterritorialisations -- Conclusion: Metaphors of infection and immunisation in times of pandemic crisis -- References -- The Renewed Desire for the Critique of Libidinal Economy: Pain, Stress, Flesh -- Tracking libidinal economic activity -- An era of polymorphous crises -- Pounds of flesh -- The libidinal exploit -- Continued collective conceptual labour.

What is a libidinal economy? How are we psychically hooked into the circuits of the capitalist economy? The contributors to this book question the relevance of a concept that began reappearing in critiques and analyses of capitalist societies since the financial crisis of 2007. The chapters stretch from its philosophical pre-history including Marx, Spinoza, Cavendish and Ibn Sina to the term's introduction with Freud and on, via Lyotard, to how online platforms put our psyches to work. Libidinal Economies of Crisis Times is a collection of essays by leading scholars about the connections among economies, pleasures, and desires.

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