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Author(s): Lorenzo Chiesa
ISBN(s): 9780810133730, 0810133733
Edition: 1
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Year: 2016
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 0810133733 
ISBN 13: 9780810133730
Author: Lorenzo Chiesa

The principal motif that runs throughout The Virtual Point of Freedom is a confrontation with the discourse of freedom, or, more specifically, the falsely transgressive ideal of a total emancipation that would know no constraints. Far from delineating a supposed “subject of freedom” that would allegedly overcome alienation once and for all, the seven chapters in Chiesa’s book seek to unfold an innovative reading of the dialectical coincidence between dis-alienation and re-alienation in politics, aesthetics, and religion, using psychoanalysis as a privileged critical tool. Topics include Pier Paolo Pasolini’s attack on the visual and biological degeneration of bodies brought about by pleasure-seeking “liberal” consumerism, Giorgio Agamben’s and Slavoj Žižek’s conflicting negotiations with the Christian tradition of “poverty” and “inappropriateness” as potential redemption, and Alain Badiou’s inability to develop a philosophical anthropology that could sustain a coherent politics of emancipation. The book concludes by sketching out the figure of the partisan, a subject who makes it possible to conceive of an intersection between provisional morality and radical politics.

The Virtual Point of Freedom Essays on Politics Aesthetics and Religion 1st Table of contents:

Part I: Politics and Freedom

Essay 1: The Concept of Freedom in Political Thought

  • Historical Perspectives

  • Contemporary Challenges

Essay 2: Virtuality and Political Agency

  • Digital Spaces as Political Arenas

  • Freedom and Control Online

Essay 3: Democracy in the Age of Virtual Communication

  • Participatory Politics

  • Risks and Opportunities

Part II: Aesthetics and Experience

Essay 4: Art, Freedom, and the Virtual Realm

  • The Role of Aesthetics in Social Change

  • Virtual Art and New Media

Essay 5: The Sublime and the Virtual

  • Experiencing the Infinite in Digital Spaces

  • Aesthetic Theories Revisited

Essay 6: Virtual Performance and Identity

  • Theater, Performance Art, and Digital Embodiment

Part III: Religion and Transcendence

Essay 7: Virtual Religion: Faith in Digital Contexts

  • Online Communities and Spirituality

  • The Transformation of Religious Practices

Essay 8: Mysticism and the Virtual Point of Freedom

  • The Intersection of Transcendence and Technology

Essay 9: Ethics, Religion, and Virtual Realities

  • Moral Frameworks in Digital Spaces

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