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Dr Fabio Vighi

Overview

Fabio Vighi Position: Reader Email: VighiF@cardiff.ac.uk
 Telephone: +44(0)29 2087 5605
Fax: +44(0)29 2087 4946
Extension: 75605
Location: Room 2.04, 65-68 Park Place

My main areas of research are psychoanalysis, film and critical theory, as reflected particularly in my work on Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek. I am currently working on a book on film and critical theory, as well as on a research project drawing on dialectics and Lacanian epistemology to explore the potential foundations of a post-capitalist theory of society. As co-director of the Žižek Centre for Ideology Critique, I welcome enquiries and proposals for postgraduate research on Žižek, psychoanalysis, film and critical theory.  

Selected Publications

On Žižek’s Dialectics: Surplus, Subtraction, Sublimation (Continuum 2010).

Pasolini, Fassbinder, Europe: between Utopia and Nihilism (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010, co-edited with Alexis Nuselovici).

Sexual Difference in European Cinema: the Curse of Enjoyment (Palgrave-Macmillan 2009).

Žižek: Beyond Foucault (Palgrave-Macmillan 2007, co-authored with Heiko Feldner)

Did Somebody Say Ideology? On Slavoj Žižek and Consequences (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007, co-edited with Heiko Feldner).

Traumatic Encounters in Italian Film: Locating the Cinematic Unconscious (Intellect, 2006).

Research Unit

Languages, Cultures and Ideologies

Publications

Books

On Žižek’s Dialectics: Surplus, Subtraction, Sublimation (London – New York: Continuum), 2010.

Pasolini, Fassbinder, Europe: between Utopia and Nihilism (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing), 2010 (co-edited with Alexis Nuselovici).

Sexual Difference in European Cinema: the Curse of Enjoyment (Basingstoke: Palgrave-Macmillan),2009.

Žižek: Beyond Foucault (Basingstoke: Palgrave-Macmillan), 2007 (co-authored with Heiko Feldner), 2007.

Did Somebody Say Ideology? On Slavoj Žižek and Consequences (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing), 2007 (co-edited with Heiko Feldner).

Traumatic Encounters in Italian Film: Locating the Cinematic Unconscious (Bristol: Intellect), 2006.

Le ragioni dell’altro. La formazione intellettuale di Pasolini tra saggistica, letteratura e cinema (Ravenna: Longo), 2001.

Book Chapters

'Pasolini, Fassbinder, Lacan: On Surplus and Brotherhood', in Fabio Vighi and Alexis Nuselovici (eds.) Pasolini, Fassbinder, Europe: between Utopia and Nihilism (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing), 2010, pp. 20-36.

‘Fractious companions: psychoanalysis, Italian cinema, and sexual difference’ in Thinking Italian Film (special issue of Italian Studies), 2009, pp. 235-254.

‘Il dolore della liberazione’ in Emanuela Patti (ed.) L’eredità intellettuale di Pier Paolo Pasolini (Novi Ligure: Joker), 2009, pp. 63-87.

‘Sexual difference in and out of European Cinema: Žižek as a reader of Truffaut’ in Vighi F. and Feldner H. (eds.) Did Somebody say Ideology? On Slavoj Žižek and Consequences (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing), 2007, pp. 250-276.

‘Nanni Moretti: Trauma, Hysteria, and Freedom’ in William Hope (ed.) Italian Cinema: New Directions (Oxford-Bern: Peter Lang), 2005, pp. 79-106.

Edited Journal Issues

‘Žižek and Ideology’, special issue of the International Journal of Žižek Studies, 2010, 4(1), (with Heiko Feldner).

Journal Articles

'Nonsense that Matters: some Observations on Psychoanalysis and Italian Cinema', in Italian Studies, 30, 2010, pp. 68-71.

‘The Challenge of Power in Žižek and Foucault’, in European Journal of Psychoanalysis, 26/27 (2008 I-II), 2010, pp. 35-67 (with Heiko Feldner).

‘A Subject that Matters: Žižek’s Ideology Critique Today’, in International Journal of Žižek Studies, 2010, 4(1), (with Heiko Feldner).

‘From Subject to Politics: the Žižekian Field Today’, in Subjectivity, 2010, 3(1), pp. 31-53, (with Heiko Feldner).

‘Pathological attachments: Slavoj Žižek on anti-capitalism and liberal democracy’, in Rethinking Marxism, 21(2), 2009, pp. 290-97 (with Heiko Feldner).

‘Liberation hurts: violence, masochism and anti-capitalism according to Pasolini’, in Italian Studies, 62(1), 2007, pp. 61-77.

‘Ideology Critique or Discourse Analysis? Žižek against Foucault’, in European Journal of Political Theory, 6(2), 2007, pp. 141-159 (with Heiko Feldner).

‘Resistant and Radical Agency: Traversing Foucault with Slavoj Žižek’, in Journal for Lacanian Studies, 4 (2), 2006, pp. 300-324 (with Heiko Feldner).

‘United States of Europe or Free Trade Zone? No Thanks! Slavoj Žižek on the Future of Europe’, in European Journal for Social Theory 9 (3) 2006, pp. 337-354 (with Heiko Feldner).

‘Beyond liberal democracy: Slavoj Žižek and the politics of ideology critique’, in New Formations 58, 2006, pp. 53-62 (with Heiko Feldner).

‘Lacan for Cinema Today: on the uncanny pouvoir de la vérité’ in Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society, 10(3), 2005, pp. 232-251.

‘On the Real limits of self-consciousness: gazing back at the subversive subject with Marco Bellocchio’, in Culture, Theory and Critique, 42(2), 2005, pp. 147-161.

‘Encounters in the Real: subjectivity and its excess in Roberto Rossellini’, in Studies in European Cinema, 1(3), 2004, pp. 185-198.

‘Sublime Accattone: Žižek, Pasolini e la critica dell’ideologia’, in Rivista di Studi Italiani, 22 (1), 2004, pp. 198-224.

‘Unravelling Moretti’s Political Unconscious. The abyss of the subject in La stanza del figlio’, in Journal of Romance Studies 3(2), 2003, pp. 79-94.

‘Pasolini and Exclusion: Žižek, Agamben and the Modern Sub-Proletariat’, in Theory, Culture and Society 20(5), 2003, pp. 99-121.

‘On torture, passionate attachment and diabolical evil: ethics in Rossellini Open City and Pasolini’s Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom, in Journal for Lacanian Studies 1(1), 2003, pp. 85-109.

‘Mimesis and the un-reconciled condition: a theoretical approach to Antonioni’s cinema’, in New Formations 47, 2002, pp. 144-154.

‘Beyond Objectivity: The Utopian in Pasolini’s Documentaries’, in Textual Practice 16(3), 2002, pp. 491-510.

‘Pasolini con Adorno: Fascismo Rivisitato’, in Italian Studies LVI, 2001, pp. 129-147.

‘Lo Sperimentalismo di Pasolini: impegno come Existenz’, in The Italianist XX, 2000, pp. 229-252.

‘Adorati toponimi: tracking ideological space in Pier Paolo Pasolini’, in New Readings (5), 1999, pp. 25-38.

Other contributions (recent)

‘Žižek’s notion of Ideology Critique in Context’, editorial of special issue of International Journal of Žižek Studies, 2010, 4(1) (with Heiko Feldner).

‘On Practicing Theory: Some Remarks on Adrian Johnston’s Badiou, Žižek, and Political Transformation, in ‘Review and Debates’, International Journal of Žižek Studies, 2010, 4(1).

‘Slavoj Žižek’s Bartleby Politics and the Economic Crisis’, in The Exception Magazine, February 2009 (http://exceptionmag.com/politics/perspectives/000365/slavoj-%C5%BEi%C5%BEeks-bartleby-politics-and-stimulus (with Heiko Feldner).

Review of Re-thinking Europe: Literature and (Trans)National Identity, in Modern Language Review, 105 (1), 2010, pp.199-200.

Review of Performing National Identity: Anglo-Italian Cultural, in Modern Language Review, 105 (1), 2010, pp. 200-201.

Review of Sex, the Self and the Sacred: Women in the Cinema of Pier Paolo Pasolini in Journal of Modern Italian Studies, 13 (1), pp. 124-125.

Biography

I came to Cardiff in 2000 from the University of Portsmouth, where I was a lecturer in Italian. I obtained my PhD from the Reading University in 1999. Since coming to Cardiff I taught the following undergraduate and postgraduate topics: ‘Borders and Identities in Post-War European Cinema’, ‘Italian Cinema’, ‘Pasolini and Social Conflict in post-war Italy’, ‘Introduction to Italy post-1945’, ‘English-Italian translation and written expression’, ‘May ’68: Marking Changes in European Politics and Culture’, ‘European Fiction’, ‘Europe in Translation’, ‘Adaptations from literature to film’ (MA), ‘Modern European Intellectuals: Adorno’ (MA), ‘Pier Pasolini Pasolini and Rome’ (MA), ‘European Identities (European Cinema)’ (MA), 'Slavoj Žižek’s Ideology Critique’ (MA).