Scott Wilson 
The Order of Joy 
Beyond the Cultural Politics of Enjoyment

This provocative book introduces a new concept of ‘joy’ within psychoanalytic and cultural studies that provides a different way of understanding the structures of affect produced by shifts in contemporary culture and economy. In so doing, the author offers a radically refigured Lacanianism that is developed through a critical reading of Deleuze.

Table of Content

Preface




Part One  Introduction



1. The Structure of the Real




Part Two  Toward Anorganic Joy



2. Trainspotting with Deleuze



3. Exhausting Joy




Part Three  Joyful Immanence (There Is No Other)



4. Order of Intimacy



5. Return to Zero




Part Four  Event

6. Surprised by Joy

7. Joy’s Laughter

Part Five  a-Life

8. Becoming Barely Virtual

Notes
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Scott Wilson is Reader in Cultural Theory at Lancaster University in England. He is the author of several books, including
Bataille (coauthored with Fred Botting).