Book forum: global libidinal economy

Abstract

ABSTRACT This is a forum containing six short interventions on the 2023 co-authored book, Global Libidinal Economy. In the first intervention, the co-authors lay out their book’s key arguments. What follows are four critical commentaries on the book, focusing on the following question: ‘To what extent do you think unconscious excess and irrationality are integral to global political economy?’ Contributors comment from a variety of perspectives – Critical IR, Marxist value-theory, radicalism – taking up the book’s arguments by illustrating, refining, or disagreeing with them. The forum concludes with a response by the book’s co-authors to the questions and arguments raised by the four contributors.