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Notes on Guy Standing’s The Corruption of Capitalism: Why Rentiers Thrive and Work Does Not Pay.
(University of Canterbury, 2018)Guy Standing’s (2017) The Corruption of Capitalism gets it wrong from the very beginning: the title suggests that the social ills emanating from capitalism should be ascribed not to capitalism working according to plan, ... -
Book Review Spinoza and Hegel - Substance and Negativity Gregor Moder (Northwestern University Press: 2017)
(University of Canterbury, 2018)To claim that the field of Philosophy encompasses different lines of thought is nothing but an understatement. Sometimes philosophy can be seen as the ultimate clash of thought boxed into a field. We could name pairs and ... -
Ideology and its Pleasures: Althusser, Žižek & Pfaller
(University of Canterbury, 2018)Althusser famously explains the constitutive effects of ideology in terms of a process of “interpellation” by which an ISA (Ideological State Apparatus) addresses and calls upon the individuals who become its subjects. To ... -
Interpassive Online: Outsourcing and Insourcing Enjoyment in Platform Capitalism
(University of Canterbury, 2018)For Robert Pfaller, who first proposed the concept in 1996, interpassvity is most straightforwardly ‘the preference of particular subjects for delegating their enjoyment rather than having it themselves’. Interpassivity ... -
Interpassivity and the Impossible: From Art to Politics in Pfaller’s Interpassivity: The Aesthetics of Delegated Enjoyment
(University of Canterbury, 2018)As a philosophical and anthropological concept, the importance of interpassivity today seems secured, thanks in no small part to Robert Pfaller’s tireless efforts over the last two decades. Beginning life as a conceptual ... -
Interrogating Interpassivity
(University of Canterbury, 2018)The concept of interpassivity as developed by Robert Pfaller and Slavoj Žižek has become ubiquitous throughout many disciplines: media, sociology, technology studies, gamming, public spaces and so on. Interpassivity is ... -
Interpassivity and the uncanny illusions of our daily lives
(University of Canterbury, 2018)An Introduction on Interpassivity: it looks like an illusion, it feels like an illusion, do not be fooled - it is an illusion. Pfaller's book Interpassivity - The Aesthetics of Delegated Enjoyment (2017) provides us with ... -
Interpassive Anti-aesthetic
(University of Canterbury, 2018)This paper explores the implications of Robert Pfaller’s conception of interpassivity with reference to a predominantly Lacanian perspective on subjectivisation. In so doing, the aim is to engender a conversation encompassing ... -
Interrogating Interpassivity: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
(University of Canterbury, 2018)Robert Pfaller encounters Lacan’s commentary on the Greek chorus. Something strikes him, something resonates. It raises a question for him; if the Chorus is a running commentary on the “feelings” of the actors playing the ... -
Other Others: further remarks on transferential materialism
(University of Canterbury, 2018)I would like to begin with a concrete example which might help to introduce us to a rather unexplored domain of psychoanalytic theory and to Robert Pfaller's important contribution to its development. The Testimony Clinic ... -
Robert Pfaller: Theorist of public grace
(University of Canterbury, 2018)An aesthetics of delegated enjoyment? Sure. An escape from prevailing ideologies? Indeed. An exposure of capitalist commodified happiness? Check. A key to understanding the paradoxes of our cynical-hedonist era? Absolutely. ... -
Interpassivity: Bonds of Pleasure and Belief
(University of Canterbury, 2018)Robert Pfaller characterizes the contemporary moment as beset by “neoliberal conditions” under which we encounter unprecedented forms of “pseudo-emancipatory politics, and even of self-exploitation” (Pfaller Interpassivity ... -
How to become an “edelez herze”: Interpassivity and the art of playing the game of collectively received narratives (not only) within the Middle Ages
(University of Canterbury, 2018)In the movie Ocean’s Twelve, two protagonists represent two very different ways to receive a complex story: You can try very hard to interact mentally – and fail on a more or less high level (like ‘Linus Caldwell’); or you ... -
Interpassivity: The necessity to retain a semblance of the mundane?
(University of Canterbury, 2018)First, some questions What might it mean to interpassively respond to Interpassivity? Is not this collection of essays in this special issue itself a potentially doubly interpassive event (that is, interpassivity ... -
Interpassive Phenomena in Times of Economic Subordination: From Self-playing Games via Cryptocurrency Mining to Dressing Up in Subversion
(University of Canterbury, 2018)'One must work, if not from inclination, at least from despair, since, as I have fully proved, to work is less wearisome than to amuse onesel’ – Charles Baudelaire Once we have been introduced to the concept of ... -
Fake subjectivities: Interpassivity from (neuro)psychologization to digitalization.
(University of Canterbury, 2018)Interpassivity and (neuro)psychologization “The theory of interpassivity has at this point presented us with an unanticipated benefit in terms of a solution to a fundamental problem of cultural theory.” Is this not ... -
The Impractical Interpassive: Introduction to the Issue on Robert Pfaller’s Interpassivity
(University of Canterbury, 2018)Can one participate in interpassivity when one does not much enjoy practical work? Let us be clear, one cannot escape practical tasks – even the task of writing, although filled with a certain pleasure in itself, is for ... -
Redefining the Role of the Military in Democratization
(Macmillan Brown Centre for Pacific Studies, 2017)Ka tangi te titi, ka tangi te kaka, ka tangi hoki ahau. Tihei mauri ora. Rau rangatira ma, nau mai, piki mai, haere mai ki te Whare Wananga o Waitaha. No reira, tena koutou, tena koutou, kia ora tatou katoa. It is my ... -
The future of Pacific regionalism: Challenges and prospects
(Macmillan Brown Centre for Pacific Studies, 2017)Fakaalofa lahi atu, Bula vinaka. Bonjour. Kia ora and Good Evening. It’s a great pleasure to be here today. I want to say vinaka vaka levu and thank Professor Steven Ratuva for inviting me to speak. I have been asked to ...
