No, he spoke of "repeating Lenin," not the same thing as a literally revival of Leninism.
> Theory Is Finished
> By CHRISTOPHER SHEA
> Finally, in a move seemingly designed to underscore
> theory's frivolousness and political irrelevance,
> Slavoj Zizek, an ebullient star in the field, wrote
> theoretically inflected catalog copy for the "Back to
> School 2003" issue of the Abercrombie & Fitch
> Quarterly.
When it was originally mentioned here:
<http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/pipermail/lbo-talk/Week-of-Mon-20030707/0173 42.html>
... this was his response:
> But Zizek bristled at the suggestion that there was anything
> unseemly about an internationally renowned intellectual
> writing copy for a clothing catalog. ''If I were asked to choose
> between doing things like this to earn money and becoming
> fully employed as an American academic, kissing
> [EXPLETIVE] to get a tenured post,'' he growled, ''I would with
> pleasure choose writing for such journals!''
Why not?
-- Shane
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