scholarly journals Voices, Monstrous and Hopeful: Catalyst Theatre's Frankenstein

2012 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 36-48
Author(s):  
Graham Wolfe
Keyword(s):  
Recent Work ◽  
Social Consciousness ◽  
Slavoj Zizek ◽  
Slavoj Žižek ◽  
Canadian Drama

This article examines Catalyst Theatre’s highly successful musical adaptation of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, mounted last spring at Toronto’s Bluma Appel Theatre. Drawing upon some recent work by Slavoj Žižek and Mladen Dolar, and focussing on the topic of voice, I seek both to explore the production’s unusual aesthetic dynamics and to illuminate its social consciousness. I also extend upon Craig Walker’s analysis of “hopeful monsters” in Canadian drama in order to suggest how Catalyst’s peculiar “lyricization” of Frankenstein’s story invites a new—and potentially catalyzing—mode of engagement with Shelley’s central themes and conflicts.

Conclusion

2020 ◽  
pp. 177-184
Author(s):  
Ole Jakob Løland
Keyword(s):  
Recent Work ◽  
Friedrich Nietzsche ◽  
Giorgio Agamben ◽  
Slavoj Zizek ◽  
Alain Badiou ◽  
Slavoj Žižek ◽  
Christian Culture ◽  
Pauline Epistles ◽  
German Speaking ◽  
The Way

Paul is a figure through whom Jacob Taubes can discern his true disagreement with his intellectual opponents, such as Friedrich Nietzsche. The Pauline epistles provide some perspectives for Taubes to reconsider the Christian culture that shaped his identity as a German-speaking Jew in a post-Holocaust Europe. These texts are useful for this particular reader to reconsider history without ever fully separating it from philosophy. The contemporary philosophical turn to Paul, considered by taking Taubes as its prime example, can partly be explained by these philosophers’ (Taubes, Badiou, Agamben, Žižek) attraction to Paul as an antinomian figure, a figure of lawlessness and freedom from law that can lead to apocalyptic violence (for Taubes) or pave the way for an existential and political break with the domain of law, as in the philosophies of Alain Badiou and Slavoj Žižek. While these two continental philosophers draw upon other readings of the apostle than Taubes’s, Giorgio Agamben bases his readings of Paul on several aspects in Taubes’s works. Nonetheless, the call from Taubes to reinterpret Paul through Freud and Nietzsche is more consistently followed in the recent work of Ward Blanton.

Interpassivity and Misdemeanours: The Art of Thinking in Examples and the Žižekian Toolbox

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Pfaller
Keyword(s):  
Specific Role ◽  
Slavoj Zizek ◽  
Slavoj Žižek ◽  
The Sublime

Starting from a passage from Slavoj Žižek`s brilliant book The Sublime Object of Ideology, the very passage on canned laughter that gave such precious support for the development of the theory of interpassivity, this chapter examines a question that has proved indispensable for the study of interpassivity: namely, what does it mean for a theory to proceed by examples? What is the specific role of the example in certain example-friendly theories, for example in Žižek’s philosophy?

Slavoj Žižek

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hyun Kang Kim ◽  
Ansgar Lorenz ◽  
Ansgar Lorenz
Keyword(s):  
Slavoj Zizek ◽  
Slavoj Žižek

Ivan Cankar’s National Narrative and Its Role in the Formation of the Slovenian Cultural Identity

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 108-117
Author(s):  
Anna G. Bodrova
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Symbolic Order ◽  
National Narrative ◽  
Cultural Space ◽  
Slavoj Zizek ◽  
Slavoj Žižek ◽  
The Subject

Ivan Cankar (1876–1918), who occupies an honorable place in the Slovenian cultural canon, once changed the course of development of Slovenian literature and influenced the formation of national identity. The national narrative of Cankar was based on contradictions: living far from his people, he sometimes glorified them and sometimes attacked them with heavy criticism; he correlated his homeland with his mother, the mother though being dead. Cankar’s concentration on the subject of mother and homeland is interpreted here in the framework of psychoanalysis. Following Slavoj Žižek, the author develops the idea that it was the mother who became the Symbolic Order representative or Super-Ego for the writer. The concept of “Cankar’s mother”, which became a symbol of self-sacrifice and at the same time repressiveness in the Slovenian cultural space, is considered.

scholarly journals Towards Solving Health Inequities: A Method to Identify Ideological Operation in Global Health Programs

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (9) ◽  
pp. 4393
Author(s):  
Hani Kim ◽  
Uros Novakovic
Keyword(s):  
Antimicrobial Resistance ◽  
Global Health ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Health Inequities ◽  
Health Problems ◽  
Health Programs ◽  
Slavoj Zizek ◽  
Slavoj Žižek ◽  
Relations Of Power ◽  
Recurrent Nature

The function of ideology is to naturalize and maintain unequal relations of power. Making visible how ideology operates is necessary for solving health inequities grounded in inequities of resources and power. However, discerning ideology is difficult because it operates implicitly. It is not necessarily explicit in one’s stated aims or beliefs. Philosopher Slavoj Žižek conceptualizes ideology as a belief in overarching unity or harmony that obfuscates immanent tension within a system. Drawing from Žižek’s conceptualization of ideology, we identify what may be considered as ‘symptoms’ of ideological practice: (1) the recurrent nature of a problem, and (2) the implicit externalization of the cause. Our aim is to illustrate a method to identify ideological operation in health programs on the basis of its symptoms, using three case studies of persistent global health problems: inequitable access to vaccines, antimicrobial resistance, and health inequities across racialized communities. Our proposed approach for identifying ideology allows one to identify ideological practices that could not be identified by particular ideological contents. It also safeguards us from an illusory search for an emancipatory content. Critiquing ideology in general reveals possibilities that are otherwise kept invisible and unimaginable, and may help us solve recalcitrant problems such as health inequities.

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