File spoon-archives/lyotard.archive/lyotard_2003/lyotard.0312, message 75


Date: Sun, 07 Dec 2003 11:49:27 +0000
From: "steve.devos" <steve.devos-AT-krokodile.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Zizek Deleuze


Lydia

Yes perhaps you are correct except in that a range of themes and 
concerns can be identified but what seems clear is that he is incapable 
of constructing something coherent - hence the statement that he is an 
anti-philosopher, but perhaps more to the point he does not seem to 
complete his cultural or politcal analysis. Perhaps the fantasy is 
simply falling apart.

(I'm still trying to work out what the meaning of the terrible Sound of 
Music analysis is - anti-jewish? a reference to the elder protocols of ...?)

regards
steve

Lydia Perovich wrote:

> Just briefly, Eric, Steve:
>
> Zizek of Contingency, Universality, Hegemony is the exact opposite of 
> his 'pragmatist' persona we're discussing here.  There he accuses 
> Laclau of having a political imagination colonized by capitalism 
> because he is not interested in discussing usefulness of Lenin and 
> what a new dictatorship of the proletariat might look like... and 
> besides, Zizek says, Laclau trusts social-democratic parliamentary 
> institutions too much...  So you give up after a certain period of 
> time on trying to figure out where Zizek stands on specific issues. He 
> doesn't, he moves all the time. In philosophy as well.
>
> Back to other emails,
> L
>
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