Freedom: A Disease without cure
- London Bloomsbury Academic 2023
- 320p
FREEDOM AS SUCH 1 FREEDOM AND ITS DISCONTENTS Freedom versus Liberty-Regulating Violations-Freedom, Knowledge, Necessity-Freedom to say NO 2 IS THERE SUCH A THING AS "FREE WILL"? Determinism and its Vagaries-Rewriting the Past- Beyond the Transcendental-Pascalean Wager 3 INDIVISIBLE REMAINDER AND THE DEATH OF DEATH The Standpoint of the Absolute-The Death of God- Suicide as a Political Act-The Failed Negation of Negation APPENDICES I 1 POTESTAS VERSUS SUPERDETERMINISM 2 SUBLATION AS DISLOCATION 3 INVENTING ANNA, INVENTING MADELEINE 4 THE POLITICAL IMPLICATIONS OF NON-REPRESENTATIONAL ART HUMAN FREEDOM 4 MARX INVENTED NOT ONLY SYMPTOM BUT ALSO DRIVE Instead Of...-Progress and Apathy-Dialectical Materialism? Yes, But...-How Marx Invented Drive? 5 THE PATH TO ANARCHO-FEUDALISM The Blue Pill Called Metaverse-From Cultural Capitalism to Cryptocurrencies-Savage Verticality versus Uncontrollable Horizontality 6 THE STATE AND COUNTER-REVOLUTION When the Social Link Disintegrates-The Limit of Spontaneous Order—The State is Here to Stay!-Do Not Give Up on Your Communist Desire!