[lbo-talk] RE: Zizek on foreign policy

Dwayne Monroe idoru345 at yahoo.com
Fri Apr 2 17:12:23 PST 2004


Joanna wrote:

That article was a disppointment: nothing new and not much depth to the analysis. The tone too was rather flat. Strange.

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Yes.

Zizek often re-works previously created essays again and again and again. Some call it simple recycling but it appears to be more a compulsion (or perhaps 'strong motivation is closer to the mark) to endlessly re-write.

The results are not always successful.

The original form of the Foreign Policy article appeared in an earlier edition of Lacanian Ink --

http://www.lacan.com/iraq.htm

I believe it's a much sharper presentation.

DRM



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