Blending his former "rock and roll" experiences with both social theory and philosophy, Frank Smecker enjoys short-circuiting the status quo with its own perverse productions. His work has appeared in/at: International Journal of Zizek Studies, the arts and culture magazine Gadfly, OWS Journal, The Ecologist, Z Magazine, Rain Taxi, Truthout, Counterpunch, and other places of publication. He lives in Richmond, Vermont.
The Night of the World seamlessly weaves through complex philosophical conjunctions and cultural practices in order to articulate a theory of ideology for today's world. Smecker argues that objectivity has become the prevailing ideological form, but he refuses to surrender the terrain of objectivity to ideology. His book is a struggle against this ideological structure in an effort to reclaim a new mode of objectivity that has its basis in the contradictions of subjectivity. It provides a thorough overview of the ways that contemporary ideology penetrates into our being and proffers a political antidote. --Todd McGowan, Author of Enjoying What We Don't Have: The Political Project of Psychoanalysis
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