The Zizek Dictionary brings together leading Zizek commentators from across the world to present a companion and guide to Zizekian thought. Each of the 60 short essays examines a key term and, crucially, explores its development across Zizek's work and how it fits in with other concepts and concerns.
Exploring the core logic behind Baudrillard's writings, this book offers in-depth analyses of his key texts, emphasizing their structure and coherence. It serves as an accessible introduction for newcomers to Baudrillard's work, while also engaging those interested in social theory who may have overlooked his contributions. Through close readings, the author illuminates Baudrillard's perspectives on consumerism, war, and American culture, making complex ideas accessible to a broader audience.
UnAustralian Ten Essays on Transnational Art History proposes a radical rethinking of Australian art. Rex Butler and ADS Donaldson do not seek to identify a distinctive national sensibility; instead, they demonstrate that Australian art and artists have always been engaged in struggles and creative exchanges with the rest of the world. Examining Australian art as much from the outside in as the inside out, Butler and Donaldson's methodology opens Australian art history to an encyclopedic multitude of hitherto excluded stories―from Australian expatriates who lived and worked overseas to artists who came from elsewhere and continued to make art in Australia. Beginning with the impressionist John Russell at the turn of the century in France and ending with the great Anmatyerre artist Emily Kame Kngwarreye in the late twentieth century, the book presents new research detailing the artistic connections between Australia and New Zealand, France, Britain, Germany, Asia, North America, South America, and the Pacific. This book asks us to reconsider who an Australian artist is and has been. In a world of increasing global connectedness, this new history of UnAustralian art is a history of the present, helping us understand the Australia of the twenty-first century.
Das Themenspektrum des aus Slowenien stammenden Philosophen, nicht-praktizierenden Psychoanalytikers, Lacan-Schülers und Kulturtheoretikers Slavoj Zizek (*1949) ist breit: Fundamentalismus, political correctness, Globalisierung, Subjektwerdung, Cyberspace, Multikulturalismus, Descartes, Lenin, Hitchcock. Mit seinen von Lacan inspirierten Kommentaren der westlichen Gegenwartsgesellschaften hat Zizek das Thema der Ideologie fast im Alleingang in die Diskussion zurückgebracht. Aber haben seine inzwischen ins Unüberschaubare gewachsenen Schriften einen harten Kern? Gibt es ein zizeksches 'System'? Diese Einführung macht den Versuch einer Rekonstruktion und ordnet das Material entlang der Schlüsselbegriffe des 'authentischen Akts' und des 'Herrensignifikanten'.