Prof. Vighi’s research focuses on critical theory, ideology critique, continental philosophy, theoretical psychoanalysis, and film. His recent publications reflect these interests, including Emergency Capitalism: Financial Hubris, Economic Collapse, and Systemic Manipulation (Sublation Media, 2024); Capitalism and the New Political Unconscious: A Philosophy of Immanence (Bloomsbury, 2023, co-edited with Riccardo Panattoni); Unworkable: Delusions of an Imploding Civilization (SUNY Press, 2022); Crisi di valore: Lacan, Marx e il crepuscolo della società del lavoro (Mimesis, 2018); Critical Theory and the Crisis of Contemporary Capitalism (Bloomsbury, 2015, co-authored with Heiko Feldner); States of Crisis and Post-Capitalist Scenarios (Ashgate, 2014, co-edited with Heiko Feldner and Slavoj Žižek); Critical Theory and Film: Rethinking Ideology through Film Noir (Continuum, 2012); and On Žižek's Dialectics: Surplus, Subtraction, Sublimation (Continuum, 2010).His current research examines the ideology of "emergency capitalism" in relation to the global challenges confronting the capitalist mode of production. In addition to ideology critique and political economy, his work engages with psychoanalytic theory (Freud and Lacan), Hegelian dialectics, and film studies. He is the co-director of the Žižek Centre for Ideology Critique and welcomes inquiries and proposals for postgraduate research in these fields.