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  • The Voice as Something More

    Essays toward Materiality

    by Mladen Dolar ...
    Series series New Material Histories of Music
    In the contemporary world, voices are caught up in fundamentally different realms of discourse, practice, and culture: between sounding and nonsounding, material and nonmaterial, literal and metaphorical. In The Voice as Something More, Martha Feldman and Judith T. Zeitlin tackle these paradoxes with a bold and rigorous collection of essays that look at voice as both object of desire and material ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Rumors

    by Mladen Dolar ...
    Series series Theory Redux
    When Socrates was standing before the Athenian tribunal in 399 BC, he said in his defence that the opponents he feared most were the invisible ones, those who had been spreading rumors against him for years but none of whom were being brought to court – it was like fighting shadows. The moment was iconic: Socrates, the harbinger of logos and true knowledge, was eventually defeated by rumors and ... Read more

    $10.00 USD

  • A Voice and Nothing More

    by Mladen Dolar ...
    Series series Short Circuits
    A new, philosophically grounded theory of the voice—the voice as the lever of thought, as one of the paramount embodiments of the psychoanalytic object.Plutarch tells the story of a man who plucked a nightingale and finding but little to eat exclaimed: "You are just a voice and nothing more." Plucking the feathers of meaning that cover the voice, dismantling the body from which the voice seems to ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Cogito and the Unconscious

    sic 2

    Translated by Sina K. Najafi ...
    by Mladen Dolar, Alenka Zupancic ...
    Series Book 2 - [sic] Series
    The Cartesian cogito—the principle articulated by Descartes that "I think, therefore I am"—is often hailed as the precursor of modern science. At the same time, the cogito's agent, the ego, is sometimes feared as the agency of manipulative domination responsible for all present woes, from patriarchal oppression to ecological catastrophes. Without psychoanalyzing philosophy, Cogito and the ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

  • The Ethics of Ernst Lubitsch

    Comedy Without Relief

    by Ivana Novak, Gregor Moder, Jela Krecic, Yuval Kremnitzer, Aaron Schuster, Mladen Dolar, Robert Pfaller, Alenka Zupancic ...
    Against the idea that comedy offers us a relief from the horrors of the real world, the German-Jewish-American filmmaker Ernst Lubitsch defended his masterpiece To Be or Not to Be, a comedy from 1942 about the concurrent Nazi occupation of Poland, with the claim that he had made up his mind “to make a picture with no attempt to relieve anybody from anything at any time.” The essays included in The ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Opera's Second Death

    by Slavoj Zizek, Mladen Dolar ...
    Opera's Second Death is a passionate exploration of opera - the genre, its masterpieces, and the nature of death. Using a dazzling array of tools, Slavoj Zizek and coauthor Mladen Dolar explore the strange compulsions that overpower characters in Mozart and Wagner, as well as our own desires to die and to go to the opera. ... Read more

    $55.99 USD