Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 10:26:00 -0400
Subject: Re: Jouissance in the Dark


At 01:41 PM 23/10/00 -0400, Chris wrote:

>> But the essay by Zizek above often puzzles me, when it almost become 
>suggested that reality IS the capitalist dynamic - (reality is lacking, etc.). 
>It's almost an apology for capitalism, and for endless consumption, which gets 
>my suspicious mind questioning what is really going on in Zizek's work?

Ken replied:

>Errr... I really don't see it as an apology for capitalism. Zizek primary 
>objection is that the political economy has been radically *depoliticized*
- by 
>way of the separation of public consent and private dissent. His entire 
>analysis aims at politicizing the economy 

Errr - yeah, I was being a tad silly here, so thanks for calling me on it -
I guess the hunger-strike-for-a-diskman is taking its toll on me, so I'm off
to McDonalds for a Big Mac and a Coke, then maybe I'll go shopping at the
Gap. I feel such a lack in my life............ :)

Chris