Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2004 13:31:49 -0800 (PST)
From: Evgeni Pavlov <evpav-AT-yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [Fwd: re Badiou Quote;]


Steve,

> Please explain how and why Badiou and Zizek's critique of  Multicultural
> and particularism with the resultant specific universalism is a political
> advance...

ok, i might try, but first of all, i want to draw attention to the form
of your question that implies that philosophical position must justify
itself in terms of its possible political implications - exactly the 
point that zizek is making about deleuze in *organs without bodies*. 
another observation - a notion of advance seems to imply progress or 
development, one political arranges isn't simply better than another, it
is an advance. 

i think that zizek's critique of multiculturalist is based on his position
on racism, i.e. he perceives multiculturalism as a form of racism, sometimes
he writes that it is an inverted racism, sometimes he talks (following 
balibar) about meta-racism. i find these arguments quite convincing, thus
i see a critique of multiculturalism as racism to be an advance. that's a
short answer, if you will... i can't speak about badiou, cuz my knowledge of
his works is limited. but maybe eric can or someone else. 

evgeni

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