Saturday, January 31, 2009

On the Difficulty of the Ethico-Political Act

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From Žižek’s and Daly’s book Conversations with Žižek (Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 2004), pp. 71-72: “The result of all this is that, for...
Friday, January 30, 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...
Wednesday, January 28, 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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Tuesday, January 27, 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 ...
Monday, January 26, 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...
Sunday, January 25, 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...