[lbo-talk] Slavoj on Mel

[Carl Remick]

>From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
>
>In These Times - February 27, 2004
>
>Passion: Regular or Decaf?
>By Slavoj Zizek
>
>Those who virulently criticized Mel Gibson's The Passion even before its 
>release seem unassailable: Are they not justified to worry that the film, 
>made by a fanatic Catholic known for occasional anti-Semitic outbursts, may 
>ignite anti-Semitic sentiments? ...
>
>Today's hedonism combines pleasure with constraint. It is no longer "Drink 
>coffee, but in moderation!" but rather "Drink all the coffee you want 
>because it is already decaffeinated." The ultimate example is chocolate 
>laxative, with its paradoxical injunction "Do you have constipation? Eat 
>more of this chocolate!"-the very thing that causes constipation.
>
>The structure of the "chocolate laxative," of a product containing the 
>agent of its own containment, can be discerned throughout today's 
>ideological landscape. ...

Wow, from Golgotha to Ex-Lax in seven paragraphs.  No one can 
white-water-raft on a stream of consciousness like S. Zizek.

Carl

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