--- Eric <rayrena at realtime.net> wrote:
"In fact, and though I hate to self-promote, I just put up a post that relates to this: <http://recordingsurface.blogsome.com/2007/11/08/escape/> "
Interesting comments on Lawrence, Eric. I always thought the main conflict in Lawrence was a psycho-sexual one, a desire for more emotional choices than the two we are normally given. I'll take another look.
BobW
> >London Review of Books - November 15, 2007
> ><http://www.lrb.co.uk/v29/n22/zize01_.html>
> >
> >"Resistance Is Surrender"
> >by Slavoj Zizek
>
> This is Zizek in a nutshell, isnt' it? The
> caricaturing of his
> opponents' thought; the grade-school contrarianism
> ("if Bill Gates
> would 'resist' the state, then I will embrace it!");
> seeing politics
> as merely the ground on which ideology operates
> ("don't protest the
> war, but only because Bush can use that against you
> in the propaganda
> war"); etc. But just because Critchley is a wuss
> doesn't rule out the
> possibility of an evasive, "passive" politics that
> doesn't resign
> itself to the state's permanence or lock itself into
> an endless
> resistance-repression dialectic. In fact, and though
> I hate to
> self-promote, I just put up a post that relates to
> this:
>
<http://recordingsurface.blogsome.com/2007/11/08/escape/>
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