Deviant and Diseased: Metaphors of Crisis and the Sexual Semantics of Excess and Perversion

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Contents 5
3. Libido, Economy, Crisis 7
4. Axioms of Libidinal Economy 41
5. “Out of Your System”: After Lyotard’s Libidinal Set-Ups 57
6. Negative Solidarity: The Affective Economy in Neoliberalism’s Decline 73
7. The Antisociality of Capitalism (Some Preliminary Reflections) 89
8. Becoming a Master of an Island Again: On the Desire to be Bodiless 109
9. Erotics as First Philosophy: Metaphysics and/of Desire between Aristotle, Avicenna, Cavendish, and Spinoza 125
10. The Unconscious Freedom of Our Libidinal Economy, or, Existentialism After Freud 155
11. What is the Libidinal Economy of Antiblackness? 177
12. A Jouissance Beyond Capitalism: Lacan, the Feminist Critique, and the Libidinal Economy of Capitalism 195
13. Karatani for Libidinal Economy: Invariance and Praxis 217
14. Datamining Desire: Short-Circuits in the Libidinal Economy 243
15. 1/0: Structuring Freedom Through the Digital Binary 271
16. Deviant and Diseased: Metaphors of Crisis and the Sexual Semantics of Excess and Perversion 287
17. The Renewed Desire for the Critique of Libidinal Economy: Pain, Stress, Flesh 315
18. Authors 359
19. Acknowledgements 361