de-skilling

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Sat Feb 12 16:15:17 PST 2000


kelley wrote:


>No, probably not. But, then, I don't think most people are paying him much
>attention, actually. Not in academic circles--my impression is that zizek
>is pretty much isolated to certain fields. rarelly see him come up on the
>cultural studies list even.

His Verso books sell about 5,000 copies per, in the same neighborhood as Baudrillard. The Sublime Object of Ideology is up around 10,000, but it's been out 10 years.

Not, of course, that sales volume correlates with influence.

Doug



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