----- Original Message ----- From: "Kelley Walker" <kelley at interpactinc.com> To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Sent: Friday, May 04, 2001 10:52 PM Subject: FW: Zizek help
> i sent the query to ken who's offlist busy finishing the diss
>
>
> > > >Date: Fri, 04 May 2001 20:24:57 -0400
> > > >Subject: FW: Zizek help
> > > >From: Gary Ashwill <gna at duke.edu>
> >
> > > >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.
> >
> >That would probably be fair, but it would be important to qualify the
way
> >in which he draws on many of Marx's key insights and re-reads /
> >re-fashions them using Lacanian concepts like objet petit a, fetishism,
> >and so on, kind of like new wineskins for a rich old wine. Castoriadis
has
> >also been refered to as a post-Marxist... and Zizek and the Slovene
School
> >are writing with similar interests.
> >
> >howdee,
> >ken
> >
> >kenneth.mackendrick at utoronto.ca
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There's a female Prof. down Kelley's way in Florida who just put a book out
on M and F with fetishism and energy and exhaustion as the themes that
might be worth looking at. Routledge is the publisher...
Ian