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Advancing Conversations
In a world dominated by capitalism which is dangerously sliding into a new kind of fascism, Srecko Horvats new book explores the concept of subverting the dominant paradigm in …
Enjoying It – Candy Crush and Capitalism
Using a range of 'case studies' from Critical Theory to Candy Crush, 'Gangnam Style' to Game of Thrones and Football Manager to Hieronymus Bosch, this book argues that we need to …
PlayStation Dreamworld
From mobile phones to consoles, tablets and PCs, we are now a generation of gamers. The PlayStation Dreamworld is to borrow a phrase from Slavoj Zizek the pervert's guide to …
The PlayStation Dreamworld
From mobile phones to consoles, tablets and PCs, we are now a generation of gamers. The PlayStation Dreamworld is – to borrow a phrase from Slavoj Zizek – the pervert's guide to …
In the Event of Laughter
Using Lacanian psychoanalysis, as well as its pre-history and afterlives, In the Event of Laughter argues for a new framework for discussing laughter. Responding to a tradition of …
Post-Comedy
Not so long ago, comedy and laughter were a shared experience of relief, as Freud famously argued. At their best, ribbing, roasting, piss-taking and insulting were the foundation …
Advancing Conversations: SreÄ ko Horvat – Subversion!
In a world dominated by capitalism which is dangerously sliding into a new kind of fascism, Srecko Horvat's new book explores the concept of subverting the dominant paradigm in …
In the Event of Laughter
Using Lacanian psychoanalysis, as well as its pre-history and afterlives, In the Event of Laughter argues for a new framework for discussing laughter. Responding to a tradition of …
Enjoying It
Using a range of ';case studies' from Critical Theory to Candy Crush, ';Gangnam Style' to Game of Thrones and Football Manager to Hieronymus Bosch, this book argues that we need to …
Dream Lovers
'An exciting, astute analysis of how our capacity for desire has been slotted into the grooves of digital capitalism, and made to work for profit - from porn to Pokémon' - Richard …
Post Memes: Seizing the Memes of Production
Art-form, send-up, farce, ironic disarticulation, pastiche, propaganda, trololololol, mode of critique, mode of production, means of politicisation, even of subjectivation - memes …