...Design for the Real World<subtitle>But Which “World”? What “Design”? What “Real”?</subtitle> ...

... In this chapter, Kornbluh contends that Slavoj Žižek’s psychoanalytic project of reading the Real, the third and most notoriously elusive of Lacan’s three orders of psychic experience, can serve as the groundwork for an altogether new type of materialist literary criticism, a criticism whose...

...” provides the literary coordinates for what Willis dubs an “aesthetics of the Real.” While a number of critics have attended to, as well as built on, Žižek’s analyses of filmic representations of the Real (especially those found in the films of Alfred Hitchcock and David Lynch), Willis, drawing on Žižek’s...