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13 A Short Essay on Conspiracy Theories
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Alenka Zupančič
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Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents v
- Acknowledgements vii
- Notes on Contributors viii
- Introduction: Beyond the Nominalism-Realism Divide: Objective Fictions from Bentham through Marx to Lacan 1
- 1 Marx’s Theory of Fictions 13
- 2 Is Surplus Value Structured Like an Anamorphosis? Marx, Lacan and the Structure of Objective Fiction 24
- 3 Shades of Green: Lacan and Capitalism’s Veils 45
- 4 From the Orderly World to the Polluted Unworld 64
- 5 The Genesis of a False Dichotomy: A Critique of Conceptual Alienation 85
- 6 Nietzsche’s Critique of Objectivity and Its ‘Tools’ 105
- 7 Tips and Tricks: Remarks on the Debate between Badiou and Cassin on ‘Sophistics’ 124
- 8 On Rumours, Gossip and Related Matters 144
- 9 ‘There is no such thing as the subject that thinks’: Wittgenstein and Lacan on Truth and the Subject 165
- 10 The Awful Truth: Games and Their Relation to the Unconscious 183
- 11 The Objective Construction: Freud and the Primal Scene 198
- 12 (From the Lie in the Closed World to) Lying in an Infinite Universe 217
- 13 A Short Essay on Conspiracy Theories 232
- Index 250
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents v
- Acknowledgements vii
- Notes on Contributors viii
- Introduction: Beyond the Nominalism-Realism Divide: Objective Fictions from Bentham through Marx to Lacan 1
- 1 Marx’s Theory of Fictions 13
- 2 Is Surplus Value Structured Like an Anamorphosis? Marx, Lacan and the Structure of Objective Fiction 24
- 3 Shades of Green: Lacan and Capitalism’s Veils 45
- 4 From the Orderly World to the Polluted Unworld 64
- 5 The Genesis of a False Dichotomy: A Critique of Conceptual Alienation 85
- 6 Nietzsche’s Critique of Objectivity and Its ‘Tools’ 105
- 7 Tips and Tricks: Remarks on the Debate between Badiou and Cassin on ‘Sophistics’ 124
- 8 On Rumours, Gossip and Related Matters 144
- 9 ‘There is no such thing as the subject that thinks’: Wittgenstein and Lacan on Truth and the Subject 165
- 10 The Awful Truth: Games and Their Relation to the Unconscious 183
- 11 The Objective Construction: Freud and the Primal Scene 198
- 12 (From the Lie in the Closed World to) Lying in an Infinite Universe 217
- 13 A Short Essay on Conspiracy Theories 232
- Index 250
