Books by Jan Jagodzinski

This book problematizes the role of education in an increasingly mediatized world through the lenses of creativity, new media, and consumerism.

Covering a timespan of around ten years, this series of essays charts the theory and practice of art and art education as it relates to issues of postmodernity and poststructuralism concerning representation, identity politics, consumerism, postmodern architecture, ecology, AIDS and phallocentrism.

Lacanian psychoanalysis presents a challenge to our usual understanding of the subject as formulated by ego psychology, as well as the discursive subject of postmodernism.

This book offers a unique perspective of art and its education in designer capitalism. It will contribute to the debate as to possibilities art and design hold for the future. It also questions the broad technologization of art that is taking place.

In the mid- 1980s, film director Marco Bellocchio and renegade psychoanalyst Massimo Fagioli co-wrote "The Devil in the Flesh", a politically and sexually charged film illustrating some of Fagioli's controversial theories. This title considers these divergent readings and what they have to tell us about contemporary society.