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"The English unemployed did not become workers to survive, they hang on tight and spit on me, enjoyed the hysterical, masochistic, whatever exhaustion it was of hanging on in the mines, in the foundries, in the factories, in hell . . . enjoyed the mad destruction of their organic body . . . the decomposition of their personal identity . . . the dissolution of their families and villages . . ." proposed Lyotard, at the time provocatively, in his seminal Libidinal Economy. In the wake of post-68 failure, referring to Marx's analysis of early industrial capitalism and his political project as being marked by a peculiar libidinal investment in capitalism, he proposed a kind of unfruitful expenditure of libidinal energies as a means of disavowal from within.Taking cue from such notions, we would like to propose a one-day workshop, the aim of which is rethinking the connection between desire and political economy within late capitalism. Is Lyotard's notion of joyful investment in work still hold and what form does it take in cognitive, affective, relational labour? Can desire be reinvested otherwise? How have late capitalist modes of investment of desire changed sexual politics proper? What kinds of norms are being put into place and through what economic, political, biological, biochemical etc. Dispositifs? What role does sexual industry and sexual work play in contemporary regimes of investment of desire? And most importantly: how could desire be invested otherwise? Realizing desire and sexuality play a crucial role in contemporary modes of power operation and articulations of political economy, in contemporary 'pharmakopornocapitalism, to borrow Beatriz Preciado's term, the workshop on Libidinal Economy proposes to engage with this and more questions, with the aim of creating an open platform for the discussion of issues that tackle our bodies and subjectivities most intimately. From the molecular to the subjective, what are contemporary normative economies of desire and how could we work towards their destabilization? In order to tackle these and more related questions, we organize a one-day long seminar retreat with three intensive reading sessions and three discussions, opened by impulse talks on the topic, given by Prof. Greta Olson, Prof. Gerald Siegmund, and Prof. Encarnación Gutiérrez-Rodriguez.
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Journal of Cultural Economy
The Currency of Desire: Libidinal Economy, Psychoanalysis, and Sexual Revolution, by David Bennett2017 •
A Pleasant Apocalypse: Notes from the Grand Hotel Abyss: Steirischer Herbst '19. Ed. E. Degot
A Few Observations on Surplus Pleasure, Power and Sex-work2020 •
The paper traces the vicious bond of emancipatory rhetoric with enjoyment. Many would insist that even communism is a site of accomplished desires or simply a state of collective bliss, and certainly not the hard work of organizing the politics of the common good. The Platonic notion of the “common good” has itself been split into the “common” and the “good.” Critical discourse and subversive practices always embraced the common, the “commons,” and even “communization.” The good, on the other hand, acquired the connotations of a controlled governing order or a patriarchal regime linked to state power, the authoritarian establishment of law, the restriction of liberties, or the abolishing of pleasure.The paper discerns how the apologia of libertinist ethics is mistaken for emancipation and supercedes it and why numerous artistic and theoretic initiatives refuse to heed the uncanny aspects of subjugation in sex-work.
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Sexuality was previously studied from different perspectives: sexual orientation, health and health risks, gender domination, heterodox practices and stigma, deviance and transgression, sex work, etc. The analysis in terms of negotiations allows to articulate the monetary economy, the symbolic economy and the economy of feelings or emotions, which often cross or are interwoven. It also explores the issues of control and power relations, as well as space margins of individual freedom.
A presentation held at the conference "Reason and Affect in the Anthropocene" at Copenhagen University Faculty of Social Sciences. http://www.sociology.ku.dk/caps/events/reason-and-affect-in-the-anthropocene/
The commercialization of the body is not an entirely novel subject, as individuals without property or commodities frequently market their own labor, hence, also affecting them physically. In a capitalistic society, despite the inclusion of women into what was once a male-dominated workforce, they still face systemic exploitation, inequalities, and limited opportunities for career advancement. This then compels and forces them to consent to the commodification of their bodies; in view of the fact that by satisfying their clients' sexual needs or fantasies begets higher compensation or money. However, there are also cases where, despite having a job that sufficiently sustains their basic needs such as food, shelter, and clothes, some women are still tempted, even prompt, to consider such sexual and bodily exploitation for better economic stability. Herein, we argue that the decision to commodify one's body is not totally motivated by free choice, but rather by the pressure of material conditions. Drawing upon the Marxist lens, this paper will delve into the factors that drive women to decisively commodify their bodies. This paper aims to explore the systemic exploitation of women within capitalist society and the neoliberal system, and how most women are forced to sign onto the aforementioned conditions when considering an occupation.
Northwestern University Graduate Conference in Critical Theory
Libidinal Economy of the New Wounded: A Sketch2021 •
While Catherine Malabou’s theory of libidinal economy in Self and Emotional Life: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, and Neuroscience (2013) is to be commended for its theoretical depth and interdisciplinary accomplishments, it remains too far abstracted from the kind of concrete sociopolitical analyses that are of central concern to libidinal economic theory to be considered a complete concept in her work. Following previous theorists of libidinal economics (Lyotard, 1974; Steigler, 2004, 2011, 2014; Sloterdijk, 2008), this paper begins to supplement Malabou’s reflections on libidinal economics (2013) and “the new wounded” (2007/2012) with precisely the kind of concrete analyses she omits. To do this I draw first on the work of Paul Preciado (Testo Junkie: Sex, Drugs, and Biopolitics in the Pharmacopornographic Era, 2008/2012), and secondly on that of Maurizio Lazzarato (The Making of the Indebted Man, 2011/2012). What emerges is a fuller picture of the libidinal economy of the new wounded in which this figure of affectively barren subjectivity is in part rendered so by virtue of its belonging to a two-pronged regime of pharmacopornographic and ethico-economic events, both of which exhibit concrete sociopolitical dimensions that are traceable to definite (albeit diffuse) institutional structures.
International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society
lntroduction: Special Issue on “Gender, Sexuality and Political Economy”2013 •
Jorge Borges de Macedo (2005), Saber Continuar. A Experiência Histórica Contemporânea. Comemorações do Legado Bibliográfico
prefácio de Armando Marques Guedes ao livro de Jorge Braga de Macedo (2005), Saber Continuar. A Experiência Histórica Contemporânea. Comemorações do Legado Bibliográfico, Biblioteca Diplomática, Ministério dos Negócios Estrangeiros, Lisboa, Portugal.2005 •
Entre as assombrações do pasado e as sementes do futuro
Tecnologias e despersonalização da violência2023 •
Mondoweiss.net
The dead end of liberal American Zionism – Mondoweiss2024 •
Vir Bimaris. Od kujawskiego matecznika do stepów nadczarnomorskich. Stu-dia z dziejów międzymorza bałtycko-pontyjskiego ofiarowane Profesorowi Aleksandrowi Kośko
O toporach ślężańskich/śląskich/sobótczańskich kilka uwag z oddali / J.Libera, J.Sobieraj2019 •
2019 •
2024 •
JEMSI (Jurnal Ekonomi, Manajemen, dan Akuntansi)
Pengaruh Kualitas Produk, Harga Dan Online Customer Review Terhadap Keputusan Pembelian (Studi Pada Konsumen Lip Cream Viva Cosmetics Di Shopee Bandung)2024 •
Revista Urologia Colombiana
Trastornos de la conducta eyaculatoria (TCE) en una consulta privada de urosexología2008 •
Unpublished manuscript. Canberra: The …
Emotionally intelligent tax policy: the case of higher education funding2003 •
British Journal of Educational Technology
Educational technology research trends in Turkey from a critical perspective: An analysis of postgraduate theses2019 •
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2013 13th International Conference on Numerical Simulation of Optoelectronic Devices (NUSOD)
Exploring excitability in graphene for spike processing networks2013 •