Against the Populist Temptation

Žižek, Slavoj

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“…The theoretical foundations of this concept of affective media rest upon Lacanian Marxism (Žižek 1997(Žižek , 2006(Žižek , 2008(Žižek , and Dean 2009(Žižek , 2010(Žižek , 2016 and discourse theory (Laclau 2005) which will be expounded shortly. It is first necessary to delineate the Deleuzian formulation of affect theory which predominates in scholarly accounts of new media and enjoys a popular saliency in cyber-utopian discourse.…”

Section: Theorising Affective Media and The Politicalmentioning

confidence: 99%

Affective Media, Cyberlibertarianism and the New Zealand Internet Party

Jutel¹

2017

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Abstract:The New Zealand Internet Party tested key notions of affective media politics.Embracing techno-solutionism and the hacker politics of disruption, Kim Dotcom's party attempted to mobilise the youth vote through an irreverent politics of lulz. While an electoral failure, the party's political discourse offers insights into affective media ontology. The social character of affective media creates the political conditions for an antagonistic political discourse. In this case affective identification in the master signifier "The Internet" creates a community of enjoyment, threatened by the enemy of state surveillance as an agent of rapacious jouissance. The Internet Party's politics of lulz was cast as a left-wing techno-fix to democracy, but this rhetoric belied a politics of cyberlibertarianism. Dotcom's political intervention attempted to conflate his private interests as a battle that elevates him to the status of cyberlibertarian super-hero in the mould of Edward Snowden or Julian Assange.

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Section: Theorising Affective Media and The Politicalmentioning

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Affective Media, Cyberlibertarianism and the New Zealand Internet Party

Jutel¹

2017

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“…Moreover, at the ontological level, the articulatory logic's constitution of an other that exists in outsided antagonistic opposition to 'the people' also raises concerns of tendencies towards totalitarian utopianism (Stavrakakis 2003;Žižek 2006. However, in the conclusions I argue for the possibility of normatively evaluating populist articulations through assessing who is allocated the role of the villain, and therefore whether the articulation potentially disrupts the post-political horizon, or acts to consolidate it.…”

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Populism as a fantasmatic rupture in the post-political order: integrating Laclau with Glynos and Stavrakakis

Salter

2016

Kōtuitui: New Zealand Journal of Social Sciences Online

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The recent challenges of populist movements to the 'postdemocratic horizon' in Greece and elsewhere have highlighted its possibilities as a political force able to mount a challenge to the technocratic logics of the neoliberal consensus. The theoretical perspective of Ernesto Laclau, which focuses on the rhetorical act of naming 'the people' and extrinsic representative form over intrinsic content, thus becomes increasingly valuable to explore such possibilities and to account for the current ubiquity of populist articulations both here in New Zealand and further afield. However, the need to clarify and iron out any inconsistencies in Laclau's approach also increases, and the main task of this article is to raise the consideration of how it could be supplemented by, and articulated with, the Lacanian psychoanalytic concepts of fantasy and jouissance. Analysis of a selection of John Key's populist articulations in the New Zealand media, and photographs from Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) protests, reveal that both forms of populist articulation, while constructing very different visions of 'the people', hinge on the fantasmatic representation of an other; an antagonistic power who steals our enjoyment. However, I conclude that a normative assessment of populist articulations is both possible and necessary.ARTICLE HISTORY

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“…Population ageing was installed, so to speak, as an empty threat that simultaneously managed to form a link between the range of different identities and demands that constituted the ''we'' in the first place (Laclau 2005;Ž ižek 2006). Without population ageing there would be no obvious connections between the particular demands for the improvement of care services for older people, decent retirement pensions and a more generous labour immigration policy, that were now brought together, nor would there be ''a people'' (an ''us'') to attribute views and demands to.…”

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The baby-boom is over and the ageing shock awaits: populist media imagery in news-press representations of population ageing

Lundgren

Ljuslinder

2012

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From an international perspective, media representations of population ageing have been described as apocalyptic in character. In this article, we analyse the way population ageing is represented in three Swedish newspapers: Aftonbladet, Dagens Nyheter and Västerbottens-Kuriren. The aim is to investigate Swedish news-press representations of population ageing and the old age identities that they offer. We conduct qualitative analyses of the articulations between the verbal content and the use of illustrations, metaphorical language, headlines and captions using the concepts offered by discourse theory. The analysis of the material shows that the studied newspapers firmly position population ageing within a wider discourse of political economy and as a threat to the concept of welfare. Growth is promoted as a self-evident means for adjusting to the expected threat. Illustrations and metaphorical language helped to constitute population ageing as a serious, dichotomised (e.g. young

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Against the Populist Temptation

Cited by 186 publications

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Affective Media, Cyberlibertarianism and the New Zealand Internet Party

Affective Media, Cyberlibertarianism and the New Zealand Internet Party

Populism as a fantasmatic rupture in the post-political order: integrating Laclau with Glynos and Stavrakakis

The baby-boom is over and the ageing shock awaits: populist media imagery in news-press representations of population ageing

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