Zizek = the Third Way (was Re: Zizek on Haider)

[kelley]

Here's the thing, if the logic of enjoyment is such that Haider gets fans
with all the publicity surrounding his denouncement, then tell me, why
doesn't it work the other way?  Why don't feminists accrue more to their
ranks when Rush calls them feminazis?  Why isn't the queer community seeing
rising numbers of supporters/identifiers as Dr. Laura denounces them
repeteadly?  eh?  Was it just that anarchists got all that negative
publicity and attention--the denunciations all over the mainstream media in
the US?  Or, was it that the particular object of denunciation and what
they were struggling against were already appealing to the peeps who became
interested in anarcho-activism after the WTO protests?  In my hometown,
when a church was denounced as a cult [it was not, but that's what
happened] it didn't see a rise in membership despite the denunciations and
the huge forums that were held, including a free one featuring one of those
dudes who deprograms cult members.  Nope.  The church didn't see rising
numbers of membership.  In fact, a couple of years later they were exposed
for fraud and other crap.    

The logic that Zizek uses in this analysis is just wrong and that's why
psychoanalytic concpets ought not be applied to social phenom -- they don't
fucking translate because society doesn't operate like people and people
aren't societies. 

kelley