From: wmet5328-AT-mail.usyd.edu.au
Date: Thu,  4 Mar 2004 17:21:13 +1100
Subject: Re: [postanarchism] The Agreement of Zizek and Katsiafiacas on Multiculturalism



 I am very interested in this aspect of Zizek's work. I'm aware of his 
conflation of poststructuralism and cultural studies, under the heading of 
tolerance. But does anyone know of any texts in which he explicitly takes up 
some cultural studies material, that is in which he thoroughly and carefully 
addresses some cultural studies works? This aside, does anyone know where he 
explains in some detail why he ascribes this banner to cultural studies (I want 
to know explicitly in terms of cultural studies, not in terms of a critique of 
tolerance in general)? It's not that I disagree with him, I would simply like 
to read the references. 

 Ta,
 Wesley Metham. 

Quoting villon sasha k <il_frenetico-AT-yahoo.com>:

> How one can read Zizek as saying that we need to
> coexist with Islamic fundementalism, is somewhat
> beyond me.  Frankly, he is critiquing the the use of
> I.F. to up hold liberal-democratic capitalism, he is
> not arguing for a respect for difference approach at
> all.  He is extremely critical of the repsect for
> difference position which he connects, rightly in my
> view, with post-structuralism and American Cultural
> Studies.  And as for Badiou, that position is the main
> target of his book!--he basically calls for an
> indifference to difference.  None of this argues, as
> Katsiafiacas does, for a coexistence, it is pointing
> instead for a radical break with liberal capitalism
> and showing how an argument of coexistence or repect
> for difference is thoroughly part of liberal
> capitalist ideology.  Personnaly that is closer to my
> position.   But I will post a piece on the Badiou very
> soon--out of reading the intro and the first
> chapter--and perhaps then my point will be clearer.
>    best,
>     sasha 
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