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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...