Fabio Vighi is Professor of Critical Theory and Italian at Cardiff University, UK. His research spans critical theory, ideology critique, continental philosophy, theoretical psychoanalysis, and film studies. He is particularly interested in the intersections of capitalism, culture, and psychoanalytic theory, with a focus on the contemporary crises of the capitalist system and the ideology of “emergency capitalism.”
He is the author of numerous books, including Sexual Difference in European Cinema (2009), On Žižek’s Dialectics: Surplus, Subtraction, Sublimation (2010), Critical Theory and Film: Rethinking Ideology Through Film Noir (2012), States of Crisis and Post-Capitalist Scenarios (2014; co-edited with Heiko Feldner and Slavoj Žižek), Critical Theory and the Crisis of Contemporary Capitalism (2015; co-authored with Heiko Feldner), Unworkable: Delusions of an Imploding Civilization (2022), Capitalism and the New Political Unconscious: A Philosophy of Immanence (2023; co-edited with Riccardo Panattoni), and Emergency Capitalism: Financial Hubris, Economic Collapse, and Systemic Manipulation (2024).
Vighi is currently exploring the ideology of emergency capitalism and its implications for global economic and social challenges. He also serves as co-director of the Žižek Centre for Ideology Critique.
