Slavoj Žižek’s Development of the Inhuman/Posthuman: Film, Freedom, Capitalism
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This article is interested in examining Slavoj Žižek’s developing idea on the inhuman which can be linked to the posthuman. This article starts with Žižek’s analysis of gaze and of voice without bodies, then moves to his discussion about the subject in cyberspace as multiplicity as ungraspable. It seems that such discussion is based on the idea of liberty to which Žižek finds that such thinking is problematic. He denies the thinking in which the subject is often misled to believe that they have a full liberty. Here, the discussion is moved to the posthuman, in which Žižek takes that the posthuman does not mean that the subject is emancipatory; the reality of life in which full freedom is negated has been continuing. The question raised by Žižek is that who is behind the success of this human beyond the limitation of being human? Perhaps the success that lurks behind the posthuman is the success of capitalism.
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