Cinematic Capital: Hollywood and the Libidinal Economy of Financial Crime
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Professor Fabio Vighi (Cardiff University) examines how Hollywood cinema, in the wake of financial capitalism, portrays capital as symptom. How does Hollywood cinema recalibrate surplus value as surplus jouissance? How does the criminal legal system feed into and facilitate the structure of fantasy that produces this surplus jouissance?
Professor Vighi writes and teaches on cinema studies, psychoanalysis, and the political economy. His recent books include Emergency Capitalism: Financial Hubris, Economic Collapse, and Systemic Manipulation and Capitalism and the New Political Unconscious: a Philosophy of Immanence.
Professor Robert Weisberg will moderate this conversation. Please join us!
Event Location: Terrace Room, Margaret Jacks Hall, Bldg 460
450 Jane Stanford Way, Stanford, CA 94305