Original scientific paper
„David Bowie”: A Mode of Celebrity Mourning—Vita, Melancholy and Political Economy
Katarina Peović Vuković
; Filozofski fakultet Sveučilišta u Rijeci
Abstract
The paper takes the recent death of David Bowie as its focus in order to approach the broader question of the character of the celebrity death. There are three points anchoring the paper. The first is the concept of the negative event, which refers to the perpetuation of the eventfulness that leads to the end of the constitution of the event as such. It points to the emergence of the non-event as in the case of David Bowie's death. As interpellation of the subject in the framework of ideological phantasm, it takes the discursive form of the saint's vita as a specific spiritual imitation which, although negative in its character, forms the subjects. The second, the concept of the negative subjectivity, takes the form of the melancholy and has the important role in postmodern ideology. The role of the Internet is elaborated on as a space of the unconscious and the core of the jouissance. The Internet proves that collective pathology has the structure of melancholy. The third anchor is the concept of the negative Real, political economy as a framework of the event and a mechanism for the translation of the Real into the Imaginary.
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Hrčak ID:
168511
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Publication date:
20.9.2016.
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