The book Running on the spot shows how the neoliberal ideology affects our lives, for example, by increasing anxiety, triggering new psychological symptoms, changing our view on work, ethics, love, parenting, genetics, and the future. The book, divided into eleven sections, examines the inner workings of consumer societies (e.g., the psychoanalysis of credit card payments, where the wealthy do it with a nonchalant gesture, while the poor with a shrug and a sense of guilt), new psychological symptoms (e.g., the headless rush for "medicines" against loneliness), paradoxes of modern society (e.g., discomfort in the absence of a "master", declining commitment to work, and – at the same time - obsession with efficiency), modern traumas (e.g., Srebrenica) and, finally, post-truth, which is increasingly becoming a dominant feature of our time. The book shows how we may move faster and faster, but we don't get anywhere – or we even take a step back.
D.11 Other
COBISS.SI-ID: 289804544Renata Salecl had a keynote lecture at the conference Économies de L'existence: Economies od existence, which was on Juin 9 and 10, 2017 at NYU Paris. This lecture analyzes the problem of the subject in the time of neo-liberalism. The author questions why ignorance is increasing in modern society and how increasing the feeling of anxiety affects people's attitude towards knowledge. This lecture analyzes the problem of the subject in the time of neo-liberalism. The author questions why ignorance is increasing in modern society and how increasing the feeling of anxiety affects people's attitude towards knowledge.
B.04 Guest lecture
COBISS.SI-ID: 1988430Professor Salecl is Professor of Psychology/Psychoanalysis and Law at Birkbeck School of Law, University of London. As a leading scholar on the subject of psychoanalysis and law, she consolidated her connection with Birkbeck Law School when she was commissioned to develop and run a course exploring the psychoanalytical and emotional dimensions of the lawyer-client relation and, more generally, the psycho-social dimensions of legal practice as a core course on the School’s newly established LLM in Critical Legal Practice. Professor Salecl helps Birkbeck School of Law in its aim to establish itself as a leading centre for the study of the emotional and psychological dimensions of the practice of law and to further consolidate existing work in the field of law and psychoanalysis.
B.05 Guest lecturer at an institute/university
The objective of this paper was to explore the factors that caused civilian casualties in kill-or-capture missions, or “night raids”, carried out by US Special Operations forces in Afghanistan. The paper was divided in three parts. The first part, which focused on the target selection process, examined how the too-broad criteria used by the US military for determining targets blurred the line between combatants and civilians, thus creating circumstances for raids targeting civilians. The first criterion introduced by the US military was that individuals were legitimate military targets if they provided food and shelter to insurgents; the second criterion was that individuals were legitimate targets if they were suspected of possessing incidental information on the insurgency; and the third criterion was that individuals were legitimate targets if they frequently communicated, via mobile phones, with insurgents. The second part of the paper, which focused on what happened during night raids, examined how the introduction of a vague definition of “hostile intent” created circumstances for excessively subjective interpretations of “hostile intent". Those interpretations led to the killings of civilians. The last, third part of the paper showed how the too-broad criteria for determining targets and the vague definition of “hostile intent” led to indiscriminate attacks against civilians.
B.03 Paper at an international scientific conference
COBISS.SI-ID: 2081614