[lbo-talk] Zizek helps again

Dennis Claxton ddclaxton at earthlink.net
Thu Oct 23 17:45:49 PDT 2008


B. posted:

WILLIAMS: Who is a member of the elite?

PALIN: Oh, I guess just people who think that they're better than anyone else.

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This made me think of the Zizek/BHL debate Dwayne pointed out a couple weeks ago. Dwayne wrote:


>Zizek agreed with Levy (about May '68) in a broad sense -- 'who can
>deny that the situation for Gays, women and minorities in France
>opened up after the upheaval of May?' But he went further to track
>how the movement's bacchanalian aspects created new opportunities
>for Capital and new for methods for de-politicization.

I think Palin here is talking about "ego tripping" a hippie term that, according to Dictionary.com, entered the lexicon in 1969.



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