Literature and Society: Psychopolitics

If politics always entailed psychopolitics (psychical and political-economic conjunctures) then why do contemporary politics feel so particularly psycho? We investigate this question across a range of theoretical, historical, and political-economic contexts: Freudo-Marxism, platform capitalism, decolonization, authoritarianism, conspiracism, neoliberalism, fossil fascism, and crises of authority. Readings include Thomas Hobbes, Andreas Malm, Adorno and Horkheimer, Jacqueline Rose, Herbert Marcuse, Wendy Brown, Frantz Fanon, Alenka Zupancic, and Freud.