From: "Lydia Perovich" <fauxprophete-AT-hotmail.com>
Subject: RE: Zizek Deleuze
Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2003 09:55:24 -0400


Trouble is, I can't  get hold of the book unless I order it through a 
bookstore (and it'll take time to get it), so for now I'll be digesting 
these wonderful in-depth emails and occasionally digressing into other 
books.  I still plan on writing something a propos Geof's comments on 
'tongues of the cities'  through DeLillo's Cosmopolis...

Re. Zizek and the Third Way...  I share that apprehension with Steve (that 
Zizek seems to be occasionally flirting with the 3rd Way) but based on his 
"daily political" allegiances -- which some might say are 'trivial' and 
irrelevant to understanding of his philosophy.  For instance, he seems to 
have supported NATO bombardments in Yugoslavia (which is the type of 
imperial humanitarian intervention that Badiou despises), seems to be in 
favour of keeping the death penalty, and I believe the party in Slovenia 
that he is active in is a centre-right party.  All of this for some might be 
irrelevant unless there is a 'source' of it in his philosophy and it seems 
that Steve is onto something here.  I'll be reading this debate closely.

BTW there's nothing more (inadvertently?) accurate than a sentence in one of 
your posts Eric that says "in this book Zizek covers Zizek pretty well". :)

Since I am at work I have to go now and pretend that I am working for a 
while,

L

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