Professor Fabio Vighi (Cardiff University) examines how Hollywood cinema, in the wake of financial capitalism, portrays capital as symptom. How does Hollywood cinema recalibrate surplus value as surplus jouissance? How does the criminal legal system feed into and facilitate the structure of fantasy that produces this surplus jouissance?

Professor Vighi writes and teaches on cinema studies, psychoanalysis, and the political economy. His recent books include Emergency Capitalism: Financial Hubris, Economic Collapse, and Systemic Manipulation and Capitalism and the New Political Unconscious: a Philosophy of Immanence. 

Professor Robert Weisberg (Stanford Law) will moderate this conversation. 

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Sponsored by the Center for Comparative studies in Race & Ethnicity.
Co-sponsored by Stanford Global Studies Division; Stanford Department of Art & Art History; Stanford Law School, Stanford Center for Racial Justice; Stanford Latinx Law Students Association; Stanford Law School, Stanford Criminal Justice Center; Stanford Arts Institute; Modern Thought & Literature.