The research article examines the shift in the functioning of contemporary ideological practices. It focuses primarily on the distinction between, on the one hand, the traditional notion of ideology and, on the other, the contemporary ideological pattern. Against this backdrop, the research article proposes a reinterpretation of the classical psychoanalytical (as well as Marxian) formula of fetishism by developing the concepts of "fetishism without the fetish" and "commodity fetishism without the commodity."
COBISS.SI-ID: 56312162
The research article discusses, on various levels, the relationship between power and authority, on the on hand, and jokes, comedy and laughter, on the other. By way of analyzing the structural relation between critical comedy and (Marxist) critique of capitalism, the first section of the article draws out the difference between ideological use of laughter, relying on mechanisms of mediation and distantiation, and the use of laughter in comedy. Against this backdrop, section two of the article illustrates and further develops the initial thesis by offering an interpretation of some of the key aspects of Chaplin’s Modern Times. Here, the research article focuses primarily on the problem of the status of laziness and rest in our capitalist actuality.
COBISS.SI-ID: 55617634
The research article proposes a Lacanian reading of the thesis according to which Marx's general formula of capital introduces the principle of repetition. It focuses primarily on the structural tie between repetition and the surplus-object, conceived by Marx under the notion of surplus-value. By way of producing a series of formalizations, the research article analyzes the structural role of the un-dialecticized surplus (remainder) in capitalism discourse, as well as the formal dependency of the sphere of consumption on the logic of capital circulation.
COBISS.SI-ID: 56094562