Organs without Bodies On Deleuze and Consequeces

The latest book by the Slovenian critic Slavoj Zizek takes the work of French philosopher Gilles Deleuze as the beginning of a dazzling inquiry into the realms of radical politics, philosophy, film (Hitchcock, Fight Club), and psychoanalysis. Of Organs without Bodies Joan Copjec (Imagine There's No Woman) has written:"With all his ususal humor and invention, Zizek -- the acknowledged master of the 180 degree turn -- here takes a trip into "enemy" territory to deliver Deleuze of a marvelously rebellious child, one that seriously challenges Deleuze's other progeny with a surprising but convincing bid for succession. Those who thought Deleuze's forward march into the future would follow a straight path are forced to rethink their stance. From now on all readings of Deleuze will have to take a detour through this important -- even necessary -- book." Eric Santner (On the Psychopathology of Everyday Life) describes Organs without Bodies as offering "an entirely new degree of conceptual clarity and political urgency. Through his deep engagement with the logic of Deleuze's project, Zizek opens up new possibilities of thought beyond the terms of the current political debates on globalization, democratization, war on terror. Once again, Zizek has produced an utterly timely and radically untimely meditation." Recently profiled in The New Yorker, and hailed by the Village Voice as "the giant of Ljubljana," Zizek is one of the most provocative and entertaining thinkers at work today.
Table of Contents

Introduction
Deleuze
1. Deleuze
The Reality of the Virtual
Becoming versus History
"Becoming-Machine"
Un jour, peut-etre, le siecle sera empiriomoniste?
Quasi Cause
Is It Possible Not to Love Spinoza?
Kant, Hegel
Hegel 1:Taking Deleuze from Behind
Hegel 2:From Epistemology to Ontology.and back
Hegel 3:the Minimal Difference
The Torsion of Meaning
A Comic Hegelian Interlude:Dumb and Dumber
Toward an Oedipal Deleuze
Phallus
Fantasy
RIS
On the Permanent Actuality for Revolutionary Cultural Politics of President Mao Ze Dong's Slogan "Long Live the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution"
Consequences
1. Science:Cognitivism with Freud
"Autopoiesis"
Memes, Memes Everywhere
Against Hyphen-Ethics
Cognitive Closure
"Little Jolts of Enjoyment"
2. Art:The Talking Heads
Kino-Eye
Hitchcock as Anti-Plato
The Cut of the Gaze
When the Fantasy Falls Apart
"I, the Truth, am Speaking"
Beyond Morality
3. Politics:The Ongoing "Soft Revolution"
A Yuppie Reading Deleuze
Micro-Fascisms
Netocracy
Blows against the Empire
The Liberal
How to Live with Catastrophes?
A Modest Proposal for an Act in the Middle East
Index

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