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DEATH KNOWS MY NAME: Žižek the Authoritarian→
05/08/12
In a post last week, I quoted Johann Hari on the myriad problems with Slavoj Žižek. Not surprisingly, fans of Žižek were quick to write to me about why Hari is wrong. The blogger at Interruptions, in fact, pointed me to an interesting piece by Graham Harman that serves…
This is an amazing article on the implicit authoritarianism in Zizek’s work, I would urge everyone to take a look.
ahaha what
Žižek: “Here’s an extended argument developed over the course of a number of books against the liberal criticism of Leninism as authoritarian.”
Liberal critic of Žižek: “OMG ŽIŽEK IS A LENINIST WHAT A TERRIBLE AUTHORITARIAN HE IS.”
It’s bizarre; this supposed criticism of Žižek literally fails to engage with anything he has written ever.
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Especially because Zizek is always calling for forms of dictatorship and authoritarianism, how could that “revolution”...
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A fantastic response...Ari Kohen’s opinion...him before...
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feel this is valid and yet still fails...legitimately appealing aspects
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Read More This pretty neatly sums up...dirty money grubbing hypocrite.
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Ex-fucking-actly. Okay, now for “Zizek the Authoritarian”. First off, there’s this claim: “I see nothing in Harman’s...
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Žižek: “Here’s an extended argument developed over the course of a number of books against the liberal criticism of...
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Two things: Zizek does carry the old Stalinist garbage around with him, speaking too fondly of the “revolutionary...
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at least they fucking realize that leninism is not distinct from “stalinism” props for that i guess, they get the nice...
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