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Research paper thumbnail of The Second Death

Routledge eBooks, Jan 31, 2023

Research paper thumbnail of Introduction: Beyond the Nominalism-Realism Divide: Objective Fictions from Bentham through Marx to Lacan

Research paper thumbnail of 13 A Short Essay on Conspiracy Theories

Research paper thumbnail of Chapter 10 The Death Drive

Research paper thumbnail of Object-Disoriented Ontology

Research paper thumbnail of Der Geist der Komödie

Research paper thumbnail of The Death Drive

Research paper thumbnail of Breve saggio sulle teorie del complotto

Almanacco di Filosofia e Politica 4. Sull'evento

Research paper thumbnail of Sexuality and ontology

Research paper thumbnail of On Love as Comedy

Identities: Journal for Politics, Gender and Culture, 2003

Author(s): Alenka Zupančič | Аленка Зупанчич Title (English): On Love as Comedy Title (Macedonian... more Author(s): Alenka Zupančič | Аленка Зупанчич Title (English): On Love as Comedy Title (Macedonian): За љубовта како комедија Translated by (English to Macedonian): Natasha Stojanovska | Наташа Стојановска Journal Reference: Identities: Journal for Politics, Gender and Culture, Vol. 2, No. 1 (Summer 2003) Publisher: Research Center in Gender Studies - Skopje and Euro-Balkan Institute Page Range: 61-80 Page Count: 19 Citation (English): Alenka Zupančič, “On Love as Comedy,” Identities: Journal for Politics, Gender and Culture, Vol. 2, No. 1 (Summer 2003): 61-80. Citation (Macedonian): Аленка Зупанчич, „За љубовта како комедија“, превод од англиски Наташа Стојановска, Идентитети: списание за политика, род и култура, т. 2, бр. 1 (лето 2003): 61-80.

Research paper thumbnail of Nietzsche and the nothingness

Research paper thumbnail of The Second Death

Angelaki, 2022

As much as humanity has always been driven by the idea of conquering death, it is also haunted by... more As much as humanity has always been driven by the idea of conquering death, it is also haunted by the impossibility of dying completely; that is, by a possible persistence and recurrence of something undead and indestructible that pertains to us; not necessarily as our ally, but rather as our enemy. This paper explores this strange non-coincidence of death (and life) with itself. Following various authors (Lacan, de Sade), it develops the thesis that the difference between the “real” (empirical) and the symbolic is not sufficient to explain this irreducible surplus of life, this undeadness, which is not the same as “symbolic life.” Rather, it corresponds to a surplus of life that occurs as a by-product of the symbolic, but which is not itself symbolic or covered by it. Lacanian theory differs from the so-called “linguistic turn” in that it alerts us to the following paradox: language is not reducible (back) to language. It is because of language that another, additional non-linguist...

Research paper thumbnail of 11 The Case of the Perforated Sheet

Research paper thumbnail of Kratka razprava o teorijah zarote

Filozofski vestnik, 2020

Teorije zarote so zanimiv fenomen, ki ga ne moremo odpraviti s posmehljivim zamahom roke. V zadnj... more Teorije zarote so zanimiv fenomen, ki ga ne moremo odpraviti s posmehljivim zamahom roke. V zadnjem času še toliko manj, saj tudi nekatere najbolj bizarne med njimi masovno vstopajo v javni prostor, v mainstream, celo v uradno politiko. Najbolj eklatanten primer je tu verjetno navezava QAnona na osebo in politiko Donalda Trumpa. Prispevek najprej analizira nekatere razloge za preboj teorij zarot v mainstream, nato pa se posveti raziskovanju in opredelitvi treh ključnih aspektov teorije zarot: kategoriji velikega Drugega kot velikega Manipulanta, strasti do interpretacije in notranji povezavi med ustvarjanjem smisla in užitkom.

Research paper thumbnail of Melting into Visibility

Research paper thumbnail of »Konec«

Research paper thumbnail of The odd one In: on comedy

Why philosophize about comedy? What is the use of investigating the comical from philosophical an... more Why philosophize about comedy? What is the use of investigating the comical from philosophical and psychoanalytic perspectives? In The Odd One In, Alenka Zupancic considers how philosophy and psychoanalysis can help us understand the movement and the logic involved in the practice of comedy, and how comedy can help philosophy and psychoanalysis recognize some of the crucial mechanisms and vicissitudes of what is called humanity. Comedy by its nature is difficult to pin down with concepts and definitions, but as artistic form and social practice comedy is a mode of tarrying with a foreign object -- of including the exception. Philosophy's relationship to comedy, Zupancic writes, is not exactly a simple story (and indeed includes some elements of comedy). It could begin with the lost book of Aristotle's Poetics, which discussed comedy and laughter (and was made famous by Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose). But Zupancic draws on a whole range of philosophers and exemplars ...

Research paper thumbnail of The Act and Evil in Literature: Чинот и злото во литературата

Research paper thumbnail of Sexuality within the limits of reason alone

Research paper thumbnail of Ontology and the Death Drive

Research paper thumbnail of The Second Death

Routledge eBooks, Jan 31, 2023

Research paper thumbnail of Introduction: Beyond the Nominalism-Realism Divide: Objective Fictions from Bentham through Marx to Lacan

Research paper thumbnail of 13 A Short Essay on Conspiracy Theories

Research paper thumbnail of Chapter 10 The Death Drive

Research paper thumbnail of Object-Disoriented Ontology

Research paper thumbnail of Der Geist der Komödie

Research paper thumbnail of The Death Drive

Research paper thumbnail of Breve saggio sulle teorie del complotto

Almanacco di Filosofia e Politica 4. Sull'evento

Research paper thumbnail of Sexuality and ontology

Research paper thumbnail of On Love as Comedy

Identities: Journal for Politics, Gender and Culture, 2003

Author(s): Alenka Zupančič | Аленка Зупанчич Title (English): On Love as Comedy Title (Macedonian... more Author(s): Alenka Zupančič | Аленка Зупанчич Title (English): On Love as Comedy Title (Macedonian): За љубовта како комедија Translated by (English to Macedonian): Natasha Stojanovska | Наташа Стојановска Journal Reference: Identities: Journal for Politics, Gender and Culture, Vol. 2, No. 1 (Summer 2003) Publisher: Research Center in Gender Studies - Skopje and Euro-Balkan Institute Page Range: 61-80 Page Count: 19 Citation (English): Alenka Zupančič, “On Love as Comedy,” Identities: Journal for Politics, Gender and Culture, Vol. 2, No. 1 (Summer 2003): 61-80. Citation (Macedonian): Аленка Зупанчич, „За љубовта како комедија“, превод од англиски Наташа Стојановска, Идентитети: списание за политика, род и култура, т. 2, бр. 1 (лето 2003): 61-80.

Research paper thumbnail of Nietzsche and the nothingness

Research paper thumbnail of The Second Death

Angelaki, 2022

As much as humanity has always been driven by the idea of conquering death, it is also haunted by... more As much as humanity has always been driven by the idea of conquering death, it is also haunted by the impossibility of dying completely; that is, by a possible persistence and recurrence of something undead and indestructible that pertains to us; not necessarily as our ally, but rather as our enemy. This paper explores this strange non-coincidence of death (and life) with itself. Following various authors (Lacan, de Sade), it develops the thesis that the difference between the “real” (empirical) and the symbolic is not sufficient to explain this irreducible surplus of life, this undeadness, which is not the same as “symbolic life.” Rather, it corresponds to a surplus of life that occurs as a by-product of the symbolic, but which is not itself symbolic or covered by it. Lacanian theory differs from the so-called “linguistic turn” in that it alerts us to the following paradox: language is not reducible (back) to language. It is because of language that another, additional non-linguist...

Research paper thumbnail of 11 The Case of the Perforated Sheet

Research paper thumbnail of Kratka razprava o teorijah zarote

Filozofski vestnik, 2020

Teorije zarote so zanimiv fenomen, ki ga ne moremo odpraviti s posmehljivim zamahom roke. V zadnj... more Teorije zarote so zanimiv fenomen, ki ga ne moremo odpraviti s posmehljivim zamahom roke. V zadnjem času še toliko manj, saj tudi nekatere najbolj bizarne med njimi masovno vstopajo v javni prostor, v mainstream, celo v uradno politiko. Najbolj eklatanten primer je tu verjetno navezava QAnona na osebo in politiko Donalda Trumpa. Prispevek najprej analizira nekatere razloge za preboj teorij zarot v mainstream, nato pa se posveti raziskovanju in opredelitvi treh ključnih aspektov teorije zarot: kategoriji velikega Drugega kot velikega Manipulanta, strasti do interpretacije in notranji povezavi med ustvarjanjem smisla in užitkom.

Research paper thumbnail of Melting into Visibility

Research paper thumbnail of »Konec«

Research paper thumbnail of The odd one In: on comedy

Why philosophize about comedy? What is the use of investigating the comical from philosophical an... more Why philosophize about comedy? What is the use of investigating the comical from philosophical and psychoanalytic perspectives? In The Odd One In, Alenka Zupancic considers how philosophy and psychoanalysis can help us understand the movement and the logic involved in the practice of comedy, and how comedy can help philosophy and psychoanalysis recognize some of the crucial mechanisms and vicissitudes of what is called humanity. Comedy by its nature is difficult to pin down with concepts and definitions, but as artistic form and social practice comedy is a mode of tarrying with a foreign object -- of including the exception. Philosophy's relationship to comedy, Zupancic writes, is not exactly a simple story (and indeed includes some elements of comedy). It could begin with the lost book of Aristotle's Poetics, which discussed comedy and laughter (and was made famous by Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose). But Zupancic draws on a whole range of philosophers and exemplars ...

Research paper thumbnail of The Act and Evil in Literature: Чинот и злото во литературата

Research paper thumbnail of Sexuality within the limits of reason alone

Research paper thumbnail of Ontology and the Death Drive