• The Entrepreneurial Subject and the Objectivization of the Self in Social Media 

  Flisfeder, Matthew (Duke University Press, 2015)
• Morality or Enjoyment? On Althusser’s Ideological Supplement of the Law 

  Flisfeder, Matthew (Mediations, 2017)
• Love and Sex in the Age of Capitalist Realism: On Spike Jonze’s Her 

  Flisfeder, Matthew; Burnham, Clint (The University of Texas Press, 2017)

  Spike Jonze’s Her (2013) is a film about a romantic relationship between a man and an operating system. Using a Lacanian and Žižekian psychoanalytic framework, we interpret this film in the context of what the cultural ...
• “Trump” - What does the name signify?; or, Protofascism and the Alt-Right: Three Contradictions of the Present Conjuncture. 

  Flisfeder, Matthew (Cultural Politics, 2018)

  This article examines the rise of the alt-right and Donald Trump’s successful campaign for president of the United States in the context of three overlapping contradictions: that of subversion in postmodern culture and ...
• Debt: The Sublimated Object of Capital 

  Flisfeder, Matthew (Journal of Cultural Studies, 2014)

  In psychoanalysis, a ‘sublime object’ is one that signifies the transformation of a condition of impossibility into one of possibility. On the one hand, it represents a moment of internalized prohibition that transforms ...

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