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Heidegger Entry, Zizek Dictionary
The Žižek Dictionary, edited by Rex Butler, features many of the most important interpreters of Žižek’s work, each offering a short critical article about an aspect of that work central to their own interpretation. On the strength of my approach from Žižek and Heidegger: the Question Concerning Techno-Capitalism (Continuum, 2008), Butler asked me to do an entry on “Heidegger,” one that would both recount the main points of my critical reading and consider Žižek’s development since my book’s publication. The result is the following article.
The other side of the canvas: Lacan flips Foucault over Velázquez
This essay suggests that the minimal 1966 exchange between Jacques Lacan and Michel Foucault in Lacan’s seminar actually stood in for a much fuller debate about modernity, psychoanalysis and art than its brevity would indicate.
Following Atheism: on a Debate in Contemporary Psychoanalytic Theory
Setting out from a debate between two contemporary Lacanians (Adrian Johnston and Slavoj Žižek) about the religious significance of psychoanalysis, this paper argues that what such analysis really has to offer to a discussion of religion is purloined by the current round of academic polemics about its “revival.” Originally published in the International Journal of Zizek Studies
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Laughing at finitude: Slavoj Žižek reads Being and Time
“Laughing at Finitude” interprets Slavoj Žižek’s intellectual project as responding to a challenge left by Being and Time. Setting out from discussions of Heidegger’s book in The Parallax View and The Ticklish Subject, the essay exfoliates Žižek’s response to the Heideggerian version of a “philosophy of finitude” – both finding the central insight of Žižek’s work in Heidegger’s radical proposal for “anticipatory resoluteness” and developing Žižek’s critique of Being and Time as indicating Heidegger’s retreat from that proposal within the very book where it appears.
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The failure of the radical democratic imaginary Žižek versus Laclau and Mouffe on vestigial utopia
Starting from the author’s critique of Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe, this essay offers a comprehensive interpretation of Slavoj Žižek’s political theory.
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Getting back into no place: On Casey, deconstruction and the architecture of modernity
This essay developed from a conference paper delivered at a session devoted to Edward Casey’s work on place, a session for which Casey himself served as commentator. It was part of an ongoing discussion about modernity, postmodernity and place in which I participated.
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Polemical Ambivalence: Modernity and Utopia in Žižek’s The Puppet and the Dwarf
Beginning from the hypothesis that Slavoj Žižek’s recent ‘theological’ writing really concerns issues in political theory — historicity, modernity and freedom — ‘polemical ambivalence’ uses a fundamental structural ambiguity in his recent book, The Puppet and Dwarf, to interpret his larger project as split about the utopian aspect of modernity.
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Missing the Point: Reading the Lacanian Subject through Perspective
Published in the online journal for the Jan van Eyck’ Academy’s “Circle for Ideology Critique,” this essay further develops my thought from Žižek and Heidegger on the relationship between the perspectival revolution that ushers in modernity and psychoanalysis.
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Review of Linda Martín Alcoff’s Real Knowing: New Versions of the Coherence Theory
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Review of Sense and Finitude: Encounters at the Limits of Language, Art, and the Political
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Books by Tom Brockelman
Diving for Pearls: Exploring Philosophy With My Father
Žižek and Heidegger
The Frame and the Mirror
Translations by Tom Brockelman
Language and the Unconscious: Lacan's Hermeneutics of Psychoanalysis
Tom on Academia.edu
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