[lbo-talk] Zizek: "Where to look for revolutionary

joanna 123hop at comcast.net
Sat Mar 17 01:20:22 PDT 2007


Jim Straub wrote:


>
> And in the concrete short and middle term, which is the only one I
> myself am much able to think in, I just cannot for the life of me
> conceive a context in which the marginally employed and ill-housed of
> the informal third world across many nations, languages and religions
> unite together in a defined transnational political struggle against
> professors and PR agents.

The Zizek article for me was a combination of buzzwords and wishful thinking.

Every once in a while he makes sparks fly, the way Nietzche used to. But otherwise, he's always struck me as a metrointellectual.

Joanna



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