cynicism
The cynical university: Gamified subjectivity in Norwegian academia
An Act of Resistance that Recognizes its Own Impotence
Serving coffee with Žižek: On decaf, half-caf and real resistance at Starbucks
Introduction
The following paper takes a Žižekian perspective, refined by Alessia Contu, as its theoretical point of departure, as it critically engages with the idea of ‘decaf’ resistance. This term signifies a resistance, which has been deprived of its potentially dangerous main-ingredient, but is still experienced as the original ‘dangerous’ resistance, where both the resister and the resisted have something at stake (Žižek, 2003, 2004, 2010b; Contu, 2008).
Education of and for the ‘post-apocalyptic’: How Britain discarded women technologists and lost its edge in computing
[…] our problem is not that we are fools in need of enlightenment. Rather our problem is that we lack the power not to be fooled. (Allen, 2017: 103)
‘Work hard, play hard’: Fantasies of nihilism and hedonism between work and consumption
Introduction
Vice is known for its raw, unsparingly honest editorial voice… Vice’s editors are either totally tuned-in geniuses or prankster revisionists. Or maybe both. (The Wall Street Journal)
The first-movers of culture have embraced a continuum that includes the hip, subversive aesthetic of Vice Magazine. (New York Times Magazine)
