zizek review

[Sam Pawlett]

Jim heartfield wrote:
> 
> I wrote this review of Zizek's book for LM magazine
> ---------
> The Spectre Haunting the West
> 
> James Heartfield signs up to a manifesto of assertive subjectivity, or
> would do if it were one
> 
> The Ticklish Subject: The Absent Centre of Political Ontology, Slavoj
> Zizek, Verso, £??.??
> 

James,
I'm curious,what exactally is the Cartesian subject? The subject as
theorized by
Descartes? I start thinking about straw men when concepts are discussed
without specific examples. 

  The talk about risk and rational choice assumes free will. And what
about the old Tory Hume's argument that subjectivity is nothing but a
"bundle of perceptions"?

Sam Pawlett