Journal de Etica y Cine

Volumen 05 | Nº 1

MARCH 2015

Lights, camera... act!

Abstract

In the present paper I sketch the contours of the theory of political Act developed by Slavoj Žižek. In a first step I present the materialistic-ontological foundations on which the latter lies, then I demarcate the Act from other of its modalities and finally I analyze its conceptual components and detail the conditions that its fulfillment demands. Given that cinema represents a field that is more real that reality itself, I appeal to it in order to think the characteristics of the theory of political Act.

Key words: Žižek | Act | Cinema

This article is, for the time being, only available in Spanish: Luz, cámara… ¡Acto!

NOTAS

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Etica y Cine (Ethics & Films) is a Peer Reviewed Quarterly Journal Edited by
Department of Psychoanalysis and Department of Deontology, School of Psychology, National University of Cordoba, Argentina
Department of Psychology, Ethics and Human Rights, School of Psychology, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina
With the collaboration of:
Center for Medical Ethics (CME), Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Norway
Under the auspicious of:
The International Network of the UNESCO Chair in Bioethics.

Lights, camera... act!

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