In politics as well as in thinking, a true Idea does not unite, it separates. The aim of the series is to promote the hard work of division today, when historicist relativism, naive scientism, and dogmatic fundamentalism supplement each other. Such hard work, which brings necessary clarity and a sense of orientation, does not take place in an empty space. The point of reference which sustains it is the unique encounter between German idealism and Lacanian psychoanalysis. From within this horizon, the books in the series will deal not only with philosophy, but also will intervene at the levels of ideology critique, politics, and art theory.
Series editors: Slavoj Žižek, Adrian Johnston, and Todd McGowan
Renowned psychoanalytic philosopher Richard Boothby puts forward a novel theory of religion inspired by Jacques Lacan’s theory of das Ding. The book offers the theoretical tools for interpreting religious belief and analyzes several faith traditions.
This book integrates Hegel’s The Phenomenology of Spirit and contemporary conversations about energy. By interpreting actuality as energy in the Hegelian corpus, the author provides a new lens for understanding the dialectical project and the energy‑starved condition of our contemporaneity.
Algorithmic Desire shows that social media is a metaphor that reveals the dominant form of contemporary ideology: neoliberal capitalism. The author interprets the social media metaphor through dialectical, Marxist, and Lacanian frameworks.
Recognizing how certain theoretical and institutional problems in Lacanian psychoanalysis are grounded in the historical conditions of Lacan’s own thinking can help us overcome these impasses; Gabriel Tupinambá also analyzes the socioeconomic practices that underlie the current institutional existence of the Lacanian community.
Contributions by Adrian Johnston, Kathryn Van Wert, Nathan Gorelick, Molly Anne Rothenberg, Mladen Dolar, Andrew Cole, Borna Radnik, Todd McGowan and Alenka Zupancic
This collection of eleven philosophical essays addresses current trends in materialist philosophy dealing with subject-object relations, amounting to a polemical corrective that insists on the organizing role of the subject within materialist thought.
Prolegomena to Any Future Materialism, Volume Two: A Weak Nature Alone is the second part of a trilogy on subjectivity in the natural world. Johnston weaves together major works in Western philosophy in a visionary theory that is materialist yet antireductive.
Speculation: Politics, Ideology, Event develops Hegel’s radical perspective of speculative thought as a way of reclaiming and revitalizing the sense of the future and its possibilities.
Drawing on Lacan's notion of the gaze, Cinema of Confinement argues that the transformation of space within confined locations in cinema is a result of how the filmmaker articulates and visualizes the excess of the image.
In Only a Joke Can Save Us: A Theory of Humor, Todd McGowan posits an innovative theory of comedy based on the interplay of the pair of opposites "lack" and "excess."
In politics as well as in thinking, a true Idea does not unite, it separates. The aim of the series is to promote the hard work of division today, when historicist relativism, naive scientism, and dogmatic fundamentalism supplement each other. Such hard work, which brings necessary clarity and a sense of orientation, does not take place in an empty space. The point of reference which sustains it is the unique encounter between German idealism and Lacanian psychoanalysis. From within this horizon, the books in the series will deal not only with philosophy, but also will intervene at the levels of ideology critique, politics, and art theory.
Series editors: Slavoj Žižek, Adrian Johnston, and Todd McGowan 
