Saturday, January 31, 2009

Marxism is not simply a "Worldview"

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From Žižek's Tarrying with the Negative : "[...] the proletariat becomes an actual revolutionary subject by way of integrating the...

Nationalism as Enjoyment

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[...] the ideal levelling of all social differences, the production of the citizen, the subject of democracy, is possible only through an al...
Thursday, January 29, 2009

Why is the American Left so Divided? The Academics!

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In my experience as visiting instructor at universities in the U.S.A., the problem here is the result of the (often unreflective, but not al...
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Wednesday, January 28, 2009

ŽIŽEK Interview: The Guardian, 9 August, 2008

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Interview by Rosanna Greenstreet The full interview is available online at: http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2008/aug/09/slavoj.zizek ...
Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Žižek Against the True Academic Arrogance

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From Žižek’s and Daly’s book Conversations with Žižek (Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 2004), p. 45: “I hate this approach of taking a little...
Monday, January 26, 2009

Žižek against both post-politics and biopolitics

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(1) From Žižek’s book Virtue and Terror: Maximilien Robespierre (Verso, 2007), p. xxxix: “[...] what better proof of the ethico-political...
Sunday, January 25, 2009

Žižek’s Re-inscription of Hegel (2)

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From The Metastases of Enjoyment (pp. 188-189) " One naive yet difficult-to-answer objection to Hegel is : What 'sets in motion...