Is Surplus-Value Marx’s Name For Surplus-Enjoyment?
Slavoj ŽižekPart 2 of the Masterclass: Surplus-Value, Surplus-Enjoyment, Surplus-Knowledge Jacques Lacan located the origin of his key notion of plus-de-jouir (surplus-enjoyment) in Marx’s notion of surplus-value, and it is worth exploring in detail the homology of the two notions, adding a third one, that of surplus-knowledge, a pseudo-knowledge in the guise of which our ignorance appears (“supreme” knowledge of God and other hidden forces, conspiracy theories, etc.). Such an analysis ...
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Welcome everybody to the second of Slavoj Žižek's masterclasses for the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities. I won't introduce him extensively. for two reasons. Many of you were here yesterday, and
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