Ebook: Interpassivity: the aethetics of delegated enjoyment

Introduction: Interpassivity Today; 1 The Work of Art That Observes Itself; 2 The Parasites of Parricide. Living through the other when killing the father: Interpassivity in Brothers Karamazov; 3 Little Gestures of Disappearance. Interpassivity and the Theory of Ritual; 4 Interpassivity and Misdemeanours. The Art of Thinking In Examples and the Zizekian Toolbox; 5 Against Participation; 6 Matters of Generosity: On Art and Love; 7 What Reveals the Taste of the City. On Urbanity; Bibliography.;Why do people record TV programmes instead of watching them? Why are former alcoholics pleased to let other people drink in their place? Why can ritual machines pray in place of believers? Robert Pfaller advances the theory of 'interpassivity' as delegated consumption and enjoyment.