Fabio Vighi
Biographic Data
| ID | 282861 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Fabio Vighi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Fabio |
| FAMILY NAME | Vighi |
| SIGNATURE | VIGHI F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Cardiff University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4245-0144 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Perfect Crime? Baudrillard, Covid-19 and Capitalist Virulence
Capitalism and the New Political Unconscious: A Philosophy of Immanence
Taking seriously Jacques Lacan’s claim that “the unconscious is politics”, this volume proposes a new understanding of political power, as it interrogates the assumption that contemporary capitalism functions by tapping into people’s forms of unconscious enjoyment, rather than providing transcendental conditions for the articulation of political meanings and desires. Whether we’re aware of it or not, political communication today targets the audi…
Financial delusions and the persistence of capital
The dominant view among critics of today's financial economy is that, at one point in its long history, capitalism took the wrong turn, falling victim to greed and corruption. This view is fundamentally flawed. The elementary but disavowed reason for the current dominance of the financial sector is that the social narrative based on labour exploitation has grown impotent. The law of value is artificially kept alive in spite of its vanishing. But …
Capitalism and the New Political Unconscious: A Philosophy of Immanence
Populist Symptoms and the Curse of the Capitalist Fetish
The article begins with a brief discussion of the 2018 Italian elections, which resulted in institutional crisis first, and immediately after in the formation of a populist government. From there, it tackles the global rise of contemporary populism as a symptom of our post-political unwillingness, or inability, to confront the fetishistic core of the capitalist valorisation dynamic, which has long encountered its historical limit and is currently…
States of Crisis and Post-Capitalist Scenarios
Contents: Introduction, Heiko Feldner, Fabio Vighi and Slavoj A1/2iA3/4ek Part I Crises: The matrix cannot be reloaded: a Lacano-Marxian perspective on the current economic crisis, Heiko Feldner and Fabio Vighi Still dancing: drive as a category of political economy, Jodi Dean 'The untrascendable horizon of our time': capitalist crisis and the ends of Utopia, Benjamin Noys The media crisis in capitalism: a report on the evil of banality, Paul Tay…
Ontology of crisis and Lacan’s discourse of the capitalist
Contingent Encounters and Retroactive Signification
From subject to politics: The Žižekian field today
Sexual Difference in European Cinema
What can film tell us about enjoyment and sexual difference? Can cinematic fiction be more Real than reality? Fabio Vighi looks at Jacques Lacan's theory of sexuality alongside some of the best-known
Sexual Difference in European Cinema: The Curse of Enjoyment
Pathological Attachments: Slavoj Žižek on Anticapitalism and Liberal Democracy
This article explores the political potential of Slavoj Žižek's theory of ideology by unraveling its psychoanalytic presuppositions. Rather than a descriptive account of ideological procedures, Žižek's ideology critique leads to a sophisticated understanding of agency that calls into question the subject's unconscious attachment to his or her sociosymbolic universe. In terms of leftist anticapitalism, the key battle concerns the subject's patholo…
Fractious Companions: Psychoanalysis, Italian Cinema, and Sexual Difference
The article explores the relationship between enjoyment and film to advance a theory of cinema based on an innovative use of Lacanian theory. Until now, psychoanalytic film theory has privileged the Lacanian category of the Imaginary and the corollary question of audience identification (spectatorship theory). In so doing, it has overlooked the order of the Real, which in Lacan overlaps with enjoyment. The article assesses whether cinematic ficti…
Zizek: Beyond Foucault
Liberation Hurts: Violence, Masochism and Anti-Capitalism According to Pasolini
Drawing on Lacanian psychoanalysis, this article looks at Pier Paolo Pasolini's critique of capitalist ideology by attempting to unravel the deepest libidinal kernel of his controversial positions. While Pasolini is often perceived as a Frankfurt-School type of intellectual intent on dissecting the contradictions of contemporary Western societies (and, for many, as falling prey to these contradictions himself), I argue that there is another way o…
Zizek: Beyond Foucault
In Slavoj Zizek and Michel Foucault, this book brings together two of the most prominent thinkers in contemporary critical theory. Starting from a critical assessment of the Foucauldian paradigm of discourse analysis, it explores the theoretical scope and political consequences of Zizek's blend of Lacanian psychoanalysis, Hegelian philosophy and Marxist politics. The comparison between the two thinkers throws into relief the commonalities and irr…
Ideology Critique or Discourse Analysis: Žižek against Foucault
The following article examines the theoretical foundations and practical consequences of Slavoj Žižek's critique of Foucauldian discourse analysis. It does so by uncovering Žižek's idiosyncratic approach to the question of ideology critique. The aim of our investigation is twofold. First, we attempt to demonstrate the implications of Foucault's failure to theorize the generative principle of sociosymbolic formations; second, we argue that by conc…
Traumatic Encounters in Italian Film: Locating the Cinematic Unconscious
Traumatic Encounters addresses the question of the relationship between psychoanalysis and film in a thoroughly original way, bringing together Lacanian theory and Italian cinema as a means to unravel the deepest kernel of repressed knowledge around which film narratives are constructed. The primary theoretical reference of the book is the Real, the most under-represented of the three Lacanian categories (Symbolic, Imaginary and Real), which desi…
United States of Europe or Free Trade Zone? No Thanks: Slavoj Žižek on the Future of Europe
This article seeks to unravel the theoretical implications of Slavoj Žižek’s plea for a leftist Eurocentrism, focusing specifically on his defence of the ‘No’ vote in the French and Dutch referenda on the European Constitution (29 May and 1 June 2005, respectively). While most liberal commentators have read these results as a blow to the hopes of a United Europe against the overwhelming geopolitical power of the United States, Žižek argues that t…
Lacan for Cinema Today: The Uncanny Pouvoir de la Vérité
Pasolini and Exclusion: Zizek, Agamben and the Modern Sub-Proletariat
This article combines a reading of Pasolini's first feature film, Accattone (1961), with an investigation into what the theory of subjectivity of Zizek and Agamben might mean for a critique of today's liberal-democratic, late-capitalist hegemony. More precisely, my article claims that Pasolini's scandalous over-identification with the Roman sub-proletariat quaexcluded social class, in the context of Italy's modernization, should be read in conjun…
Pasolini Con Adorno: Fascismo Rivisitato
In questo saggio mi riprometto di indagare i modi e le strategie operanti dietro l'utilizzo del termine ‘fascismo’ nel Pasolini maturo. A tale fine mi concentrerò specificamente sugli scritti giornalistici del periodo 1970–75, per la maggior parte raccolti in testi quali Scritti corsari e Lettere luterane. Si tratta di articoli in cui emerge con insistenza la preoccupazione dell'intellettuale nei confronti di una ridefinizione del termine fascism…
Lo Sperimentalismo di Pasolini: Impegno comeexistenz
(2000). Lo Sperimentalismo di Pasolini: Impegno come existenz. The Italianist: Vol. 20, No. 1, pp. 229-252
Lo Sperimentalismo di Pasolini: Impegno come existenz
Ideology Critique or Discourse Analysis: Žižek against Foucault
The following article examines the theoretical foundations and practical consequences of Slavoj Žižek's critique of Foucauldian discourse analysis. It does so by uncovering Žižek's idiosyncratic approach to the question of ideology critique. The aim of our investigation is twofold. First, we attempt to demonstrate the implications of Foucault's failure to theorize the generative principle of sociosymbolic formations; second, we argue that by conc…
Ontology of crisis and Lacan’s discourse of the capitalist
Pasolini and Exclusion: Zizek, Agamben and the Modern Sub-Proletariat
This article combines a reading of Pasolini's first feature film, Accattone (1961), with an investigation into what the theory of subjectivity of Zizek and Agamben might mean for a critique of today's liberal-democratic, late-capitalist hegemony. More precisely, my article claims that Pasolini's scandalous over-identification with the Roman sub-proletariat quaexcluded social class, in the context of Italy's modernization, should be read in conjun…
Financial delusions and the persistence of capital
The dominant view among critics of today's financial economy is that, at one point in its long history, capitalism took the wrong turn, falling victim to greed and corruption. This view is fundamentally flawed. The elementary but disavowed reason for the current dominance of the financial sector is that the social narrative based on labour exploitation has grown impotent. The law of value is artificially kept alive in spite of its vanishing. But …
Pathological Attachments: Slavoj Žižek on Anticapitalism and Liberal Democracy
This article explores the political potential of Slavoj Žižek's theory of ideology by unraveling its psychoanalytic presuppositions. Rather than a descriptive account of ideological procedures, Žižek's ideology critique leads to a sophisticated understanding of agency that calls into question the subject's unconscious attachment to his or her sociosymbolic universe. In terms of leftist anticapitalism, the key battle concerns the subject's patholo…
Lo Sperimentalismo di Pasolini: Impegno comeexistenz
(2000). Lo Sperimentalismo di Pasolini: Impegno come existenz. The Italianist: Vol. 20, No. 1, pp. 229-252
Lo Sperimentalismo di Pasolini: Impegno come existenz
Pasolini Con Adorno: Fascismo Rivisitato
In questo saggio mi riprometto di indagare i modi e le strategie operanti dietro l'utilizzo del termine ‘fascismo’ nel Pasolini maturo. A tale fine mi concentrerò specificamente sugli scritti giornalistici del periodo 1970–75, per la maggior parte raccolti in testi quali Scritti corsari e Lettere luterane. Si tratta di articoli in cui emerge con insistenza la preoccupazione dell'intellettuale nei confronti di una ridefinizione del termine fascism…
Pasolini and Exclusion: Zizek, Agamben and the Modern Sub-Proletariat
This article combines a reading of Pasolini's first feature film, Accattone (1961), with an investigation into what the theory of subjectivity of Zizek and Agamben might mean for a critique of today's liberal-democratic, late-capitalist hegemony. More precisely, my article claims that Pasolini's scandalous over-identification with the Roman sub-proletariat quaexcluded social class, in the context of Italy's modernization, should be read in conjun…
Lacan for Cinema Today: The Uncanny Pouvoir de la Vérité
Traumatic Encounters in Italian Film: Locating the Cinematic Unconscious
Traumatic Encounters addresses the question of the relationship between psychoanalysis and film in a thoroughly original way, bringing together Lacanian theory and Italian cinema as a means to unravel the deepest kernel of repressed knowledge around which film narratives are constructed. The primary theoretical reference of the book is the Real, the most under-represented of the three Lacanian categories (Symbolic, Imaginary and Real), which desi…
United States of Europe or Free Trade Zone? No Thanks: Slavoj Žižek on the Future of Europe
This article seeks to unravel the theoretical implications of Slavoj Žižek’s plea for a leftist Eurocentrism, focusing specifically on his defence of the ‘No’ vote in the French and Dutch referenda on the European Constitution (29 May and 1 June 2005, respectively). While most liberal commentators have read these results as a blow to the hopes of a United Europe against the overwhelming geopolitical power of the United States, Žižek argues that t…
Zizek: Beyond Foucault
Liberation Hurts: Violence, Masochism and Anti-Capitalism According to Pasolini
Drawing on Lacanian psychoanalysis, this article looks at Pier Paolo Pasolini's critique of capitalist ideology by attempting to unravel the deepest libidinal kernel of his controversial positions. While Pasolini is often perceived as a Frankfurt-School type of intellectual intent on dissecting the contradictions of contemporary Western societies (and, for many, as falling prey to these contradictions himself), I argue that there is another way o…
Zizek: Beyond Foucault
In Slavoj Zizek and Michel Foucault, this book brings together two of the most prominent thinkers in contemporary critical theory. Starting from a critical assessment of the Foucauldian paradigm of discourse analysis, it explores the theoretical scope and political consequences of Zizek's blend of Lacanian psychoanalysis, Hegelian philosophy and Marxist politics. The comparison between the two thinkers throws into relief the commonalities and irr…
Ideology Critique or Discourse Analysis: Žižek against Foucault
The following article examines the theoretical foundations and practical consequences of Slavoj Žižek's critique of Foucauldian discourse analysis. It does so by uncovering Žižek's idiosyncratic approach to the question of ideology critique. The aim of our investigation is twofold. First, we attempt to demonstrate the implications of Foucault's failure to theorize the generative principle of sociosymbolic formations; second, we argue that by conc…
Fractious Companions: Psychoanalysis, Italian Cinema, and Sexual Difference
The article explores the relationship between enjoyment and film to advance a theory of cinema based on an innovative use of Lacanian theory. Until now, psychoanalytic film theory has privileged the Lacanian category of the Imaginary and the corollary question of audience identification (spectatorship theory). In so doing, it has overlooked the order of the Real, which in Lacan overlaps with enjoyment. The article assesses whether cinematic ficti…
Sexual Difference in European Cinema
What can film tell us about enjoyment and sexual difference? Can cinematic fiction be more Real than reality? Fabio Vighi looks at Jacques Lacan's theory of sexuality alongside some of the best-known
Sexual Difference in European Cinema: The Curse of Enjoyment
Pathological Attachments: Slavoj Žižek on Anticapitalism and Liberal Democracy
This article explores the political potential of Slavoj Žižek's theory of ideology by unraveling its psychoanalytic presuppositions. Rather than a descriptive account of ideological procedures, Žižek's ideology critique leads to a sophisticated understanding of agency that calls into question the subject's unconscious attachment to his or her sociosymbolic universe. In terms of leftist anticapitalism, the key battle concerns the subject's patholo…
From subject to politics: The Žižekian field today
Contingent Encounters and Retroactive Signification
Ontology of crisis and Lacan’s discourse of the capitalist
States of Crisis and Post-Capitalist Scenarios
Contents: Introduction, Heiko Feldner, Fabio Vighi and Slavoj A1/2iA3/4ek Part I Crises: The matrix cannot be reloaded: a Lacano-Marxian perspective on the current economic crisis, Heiko Feldner and Fabio Vighi Still dancing: drive as a category of political economy, Jodi Dean 'The untrascendable horizon of our time': capitalist crisis and the ends of Utopia, Benjamin Noys The media crisis in capitalism: a report on the evil of banality, Paul Tay…
Populist Symptoms and the Curse of the Capitalist Fetish
The article begins with a brief discussion of the 2018 Italian elections, which resulted in institutional crisis first, and immediately after in the formation of a populist government. From there, it tackles the global rise of contemporary populism as a symptom of our post-political unwillingness, or inability, to confront the fetishistic core of the capitalist valorisation dynamic, which has long encountered its historical limit and is currently…
Capitalism and the New Political Unconscious: A Philosophy of Immanence
The Perfect Crime? Baudrillard, Covid-19 and Capitalist Virulence
Capitalism and the New Political Unconscious: A Philosophy of Immanence
Taking seriously Jacques Lacan’s claim that “the unconscious is politics”, this volume proposes a new understanding of political power, as it interrogates the assumption that contemporary capitalism functions by tapping into people’s forms of unconscious enjoyment, rather than providing transcendental conditions for the articulation of political meanings and desires. Whether we’re aware of it or not, political communication today targets the audi…
Financial delusions and the persistence of capital
The dominant view among critics of today's financial economy is that, at one point in its long history, capitalism took the wrong turn, falling victim to greed and corruption. This view is fundamentally flawed. The elementary but disavowed reason for the current dominance of the financial sector is that the social narrative based on labour exploitation has grown impotent. The law of value is artificially kept alive in spite of its vanishing. But …
Sociology (15 works) · Political science (13 works) · Philosophy (12 works) · Law (11 works) · Politics (11 works) · Art (9 works) · Epistemology (9 works) · Psychoanalysis (9 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Psychology (8 works)