Yah, and War is Peace, etc. Douchebag! Duke's own traxus40 takes on and takes down the recent Žižek LRB article, which overnight has been linked by every academic blogger on the Internets.
This piece by catmint is pretty helpful I think in understanding Zizek’s style, and why if you let him hypnotize you he can seem mysteriously (thus also deniably) convincing. Especially in this latest thing, in which he has the nerve to open with a list of the various Left types, setting them against that vampiric creature ‘capitalism.’ Reading Jung’s Man and His Symbols, catmint calls the aesthetic ‘creative taxonomy.’
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It’s only significant because of the sheer audacity and shamelessness of the performance. Political theory, however, is always at risk of becoming-Zizek in the course of any simple application of philosophy to politics. In achieving absolute immanence with his particular melange of Hegel and Lacan (a point I situate shortly after the publication of The Parallax View), Zizek can now serve for other intellectual commentators exactly as he intends Chavez to serve for The Left. The court jester. The fun house mirror. Bearer of our worst impulses. To his credit, I am almost ready to believe this is intentional.
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