today's Zizek quote

Josh Mason Jmason at aflcio.org
Tue Apr 27 12:05:21 PDT 1999


This is from Slate's Egghead column, so it may well be bogus, or hopelessly out of context:

Novelist Günter Grass supports the NATO campaign and regrets only that it did not come sooner, and he is seconded by Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Zizek, who denounces the hypocrisy he sees in the Belgrade demonstrations against NATO bombs. "In Belgrade," he writes, "people are defiantly dancing on the streets while 300 kilometers to the south, a genocide of African proportions is taking place.

The bit about "African proportions" puts that piece about where the Balkans begin in an interesting light, doesn't it?

Josh



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