[lbo-talk] Somebody reads Zizek

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At 04:56 PM 3/13/2006, Doug Henwood wrote:
>Max Sawicky wrote:
>
>>  http://crookedtimber.org/2006/03/10/zizek-and-badiou-where-are-you/
>
>Or, more exactly, someone's read MIT Press's promotional copy for Zizek.
>
>Doug

I thought the same thing! I was going to comment but it appears that 
they're turned off. I thought it odd that the only book he pointed to as 
"theory of theory" was Bourdieu. There's an entire literature on "theory of 
academic theories" -- sociology of academia. And why shouldn't there be? 
It's social life. We analyze, describe, and try to explain it. But 
apparently, we have to be dismissive about academia as of so little import 
that it's not worthwhile examining why certain theories are promulgated and 
not others, how taste gets reproduced, etc.

Very strange.

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