Fabio Vighi is Professor of Critical Theory and Italian at Cardiff University, UK. His previous titles include: Critical Theory and the Crisis of Contemporary Capitalism, co-authored with Heiko Feldner (Bloomsbury, 2015) and Between Urban Topographies and Political Spaces: Threshold Experiences (2014), co-edited with Alexis Nuselovici and Mauro Ponzi.Riccardo Panattoni is Professor of Moral Philosophy and Director of the Department of Human Sciences at Verona University, Italy. His previous titles include: Giorgio Agamben. La vita che prende forma (2018) and, co-edited with E. Grazioli, Live. Intensità, intermittenza, registrazione (2017).

The individual chapters of Capitalism and the new Political Unconscious provide invaluable keys for interpreting the most recent innovations in the world economy and the subtle changes in our interpretations of the signs and symbols steering those mutations. The book offers a sophisticated guide to understanding the architecture of power in the third decade of the twenty-first century.

• Acknowledgements Part I: Institutions1. On Institutions, Roberto Esposito (University of Pisa, Scuola Normale Superiore, Italy)2. For a Clinical Theory of the Institution, Massimo Recalcati (University of Pavia, Italy)3. Instituting Power, Riccardo Panattoni (University of Verona, Italy)4. Vox Populi, Vox Dei: On the Vocal Substance of the Present, Federico Leoni (University of Verona, Italy)Part II: Ideology5. Neo-plebs and Elites in the Global World, Matteo Vegetti (Università della Svizzera Italiana, Switzerland)6. On the Theatricality and Historicity of the Political, Gregor Moder (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia)7. A Critique of Biopolitics, Maurizio Lazzarato (University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France)8. Profit, Knowledge and Jouissance: Lacan and the Logic of Action, Matteo Bonazzi (University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy)Part III: Capitalism9. Jansenist Morality and the Compulsion of Capitalism, Samo Tomšic (Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany)10. Matrix Resurrections, or Jouissance as a Political Factor, Slavoj Žižek (Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, UK)11. The Perfect Crime? Baudrillard, COVID-19, and Capitalist Virulence, Fabio Vighi (University of Cardiff, UK)12. Capitalism and Law: from Servitude to Freedom, Todd McGowan (Vermont University, USA)BibliographyIndex

Fabio Vighi is Professor of Critical Theory and Italian at Cardiff University, UK. His previous titles include: Critical Theory and the Crisis of Contemporary Capitalism, co-authored with Heiko Feldner (Bloomsbury, 2015) and Between Urban Topographies and Political Spaces: Threshold Experiences (2014), co-edited with Alexis Nuselovici and Mauro Ponzi.Riccardo Panattoni is Professor of Moral Philosophy and Director of the Department of Human Sciences at Verona University, Italy. His previous titles include: Giorgio Agamben. La vita che prende forma (2018) and, co-edited with E. Grazioli, Live. Intensità, intermittenza, registrazione (2017).

The individual chapters of Capitalism and the new Political Unconscious provide invaluable keys for interpreting the most recent innovations in the world economy and the subtle changes in our interpretations of the signs and symbols steering those mutations. The book offers a sophisticated guide to understanding the architecture of power in the third decade of the twenty-first century.

• Acknowledgements Part I: Institutions1. On Institutions, Roberto Esposito (University of Pisa, Scuola Normale Superiore, Italy)2. For a Clinical Theory of the Institution, Massimo Recalcati (University of Pavia, Italy)3. Instituting Power, Riccardo Panattoni (University of Verona, Italy)4. Vox Populi, Vox Dei: On the Vocal Substance of the Present, Federico Leoni (University of Verona, Italy)Part II: Ideology5. Neo-plebs and Elites in the Global World, Matteo Vegetti (Università della Svizzera Italiana, Switzerland)6. On the Theatricality and Historicity of the Political, Gregor Moder (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia)7. A Critique of Biopolitics, Maurizio Lazzarato (University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France)8. Profit, Knowledge and Jouissance: Lacan and the Logic of Action, Matteo Bonazzi (University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy)Part III: Capitalism9. Jansenist Morality and the Compulsion of Capitalism, Samo Tomšic (Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany)10. Matrix Resurrections, or Jouissance as a Political Factor, Slavoj Žižek (Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, UK)11. The Perfect Crime? Baudrillard, COVID-19, and Capitalist Virulence, Fabio Vighi (University of Cardiff, UK)12. Capitalism and Law: from Servitude to Freedom, Todd McGowan (Vermont University, USA)BibliographyIndex

Fabio Vighi is Professor of Critical Theory and Italian at Cardiff University, UK. His previous titles include: Critical Theory and the Crisis of Contemporary Capitalism, co-authored with Heiko Feldner (Bloomsbury, 2015) and Between Urban Topographies and Political Spaces: Threshold Experiences (2014), co-edited with Alexis Nuselovici and Mauro Ponzi.Riccardo Panattoni is Professor of Moral Philosophy and Director of the Department of Human Sciences at Verona University, Italy. His previous titles include: Giorgio Agamben. La vita che prende forma (2018) and, co-edited with E. Grazioli, Live. Intensità, intermittenza, registrazione (2017).

The individual chapters of Capitalism and the new Political Unconscious provide invaluable keys for interpreting the most recent innovations in the world economy and the subtle changes in our interpretations of the signs and symbols steering those mutations. The book offers a sophisticated guide to understanding the architecture of power in the third decade of the twenty-first century.

• Acknowledgements Part I: Institutions1. On Institutions, Roberto Esposito (University of Pisa, Scuola Normale Superiore, Italy)2. For a Clinical Theory of the Institution, Massimo Recalcati (University of Pavia, Italy)3. Instituting Power, Riccardo Panattoni (University of Verona, Italy)4. Vox Populi, Vox Dei: On the Vocal Substance of the Present, Federico Leoni (University of Verona, Italy)Part II: Ideology5. Neo-plebs and Elites in the Global World, Matteo Vegetti (Università della Svizzera Italiana, Switzerland)6. On the Theatricality and Historicity of the Political, Gregor Moder (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia)7. A Critique of Biopolitics, Maurizio Lazzarato (University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France)8. Profit, Knowledge and Jouissance: Lacan and the Logic of Action, Matteo Bonazzi (University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy)Part III: Capitalism9. Jansenist Morality and the Compulsion of Capitalism, Samo Tomšic (Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany)10. Matrix Resurrections, or Jouissance as a Political Factor, Slavoj Žižek (Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, UK)11. The Perfect Crime? Baudrillard, COVID-19, and Capitalist Virulence, Fabio Vighi (University of Cardiff, UK)12. Capitalism and Law: from Servitude to Freedom, Todd McGowan (Vermont University, USA)BibliographyIndex