Patipolitics
The Philosophy of Sexual Suffering
$43.85
- Paperback
240 pages
- Release Date
20 August 2025
Summary
Patipolitics looks at what it means to enjoy the body under technocapitalism, arguing that we need a new paradigm to talk about sexual enjoyment and suffering. It is not just biological life (biopolitics), nor even political death (necropolitics) that has power, but also regimes of enjoyment. In simple terms, the paradoxical, ambivalent, and traumatic realm of the sexual: a deadly enjoyment that demands satisfaction yet cannot be sated. This is Patipolitics, from the Latin patior…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781350319370 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1350319376 |
| Author: | Dr Isabel Millar |
| Publisher: | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Imprint: | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Release Date: | 20 August 2025 |
| Weight: | 490g |
| Dimensions: | 22mm x 156mm x 234mm |
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Dr Isabel Millar
Isabel Millar is Research Fellow at the Centre for Critical Thought, the University of Kent, UK, and an Affiliate of the Global Centre for Advanced Studies. She is the author of The Psychoanalysis of Artificial Intelligence (2021).
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