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| author | Panasiuk, Mariia |
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| contents | <p><span>This monograph harnesses Stanley Kubrick's <em>Eyes Wide Shut</em> (1999) to probe the cryptic apparatuses of neoliberal academia, wherein "humanitarian knowledge" cloaks post-capitalist predation. Integrating left philosophy (e.g., Marcuse's eros-liberation), Black philosophical interrogations of necropolitical hauntings (e.g., Wynter's human genres, Warren's afro-nihilism), French anti-philosophical currents (e.g., Laruelle's non-philosophy, Clouscard's Marxist anti-capitalism), and left psychoanalysis (e.g., Malabou's plastic subjectivity, Zupančič's ontological comedy), it contends that "humanitarian science" operates as an occult liturgy, transmuting intellectual toil into consumerist spectrality. Accentuating illiberalism's assault on liberal simulacra (e.g., Thacker's cosmic pessimism, Negarestani's cyclonopedic horror), and countercultural erotism (e.g., Perniola's inorganic sex), the analysis unveils academia as a theater of psychic dispossession. Substantiated via esoteric theories—non-philosophy's victim-in-last-instance, illiberal leftism's repudiation of capitalist "emancipation," critiques of postmodern hyperreality (Baudrillard's fatal strategies)—it asserts that elite humanitarianism sustains racialized and gendered spectral economies, necessitating a subversive vigilance beyond consensual illusions.</span></p> |
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| spellingShingle | The Occult Neoliberal Academy: Veiled Gazes on Humanitarian Knowledge (Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut) Panasiuk, Mariia <p><span>This monograph harnesses Stanley Kubrick's <em>Eyes Wide Shut</em> (1999) to probe the cryptic apparatuses of neoliberal academia, wherein "humanitarian knowledge" cloaks post-capitalist predation. Integrating left philosophy (e.g., Marcuse's eros-liberation), Black philosophical interrogations of necropolitical hauntings (e.g., Wynter's human genres, Warren's afro-nihilism), French anti-philosophical currents (e.g., Laruelle's non-philosophy, Clouscard's Marxist anti-capitalism), and left psychoanalysis (e.g., Malabou's plastic subjectivity, Zupančič's ontological comedy), it contends that "humanitarian science" operates as an occult liturgy, transmuting intellectual toil into consumerist spectrality. Accentuating illiberalism's assault on liberal simulacra (e.g., Thacker's cosmic pessimism, Negarestani's cyclonopedic horror), and countercultural erotism (e.g., Perniola's inorganic sex), the analysis unveils academia as a theater of psychic dispossession. Substantiated via esoteric theories—non-philosophy's victim-in-last-instance, illiberal leftism's repudiation of capitalist "emancipation," critiques of postmodern hyperreality (Baudrillard's fatal strategies)—it asserts that elite humanitarianism sustains racialized and gendered spectral economies, necessitating a subversive vigilance beyond consensual illusions.</span></p> |
| title | The Occult Neoliberal Academy: Veiled Gazes on Humanitarian Knowledge (Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut) |
| url | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18098662 |