FW: Zizek help

Gary Ashwill gna at duke.edu
Fri May 4 17:24:57 PDT 2001


A friend asked me to forward the following query to this list to see if anyone had thoughts about Zizek as "post-marxist."

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Can anyone help me with a Zizek problem for something I'm putting together?

I've been working with some critical texts in eighteenth century studies that take a decidely post-Marxist view of the development of public credit - basically state capitalism.

I'm trying to link that work with some observations from Zizek's _Sublime Object_, which also seem post-Marxist in that he is anti-materialist, seeing in ideology not "false consciousness" that conceals a more "real" material relation, but rather the only form in which social relations, being, and subjectivity can be known - basically a formalist statement.

What I would like to know, is it fair to characterize Zizek as post-Marxist? He seems to be synthesizing Marx and Freud when he discusses fetishism.



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