http://www.lrb.co.uk/v31/n14/slavoj-zizek/berlusconi-in-tehran
It's all worth reading. However, he really focuses on the issue in the second half of the essay, if I remember correctly.
Joel
On Jul 13, 2010, at 2:54 PM, Wojtek S wrote:
> [WS:] He does not seem to be saying much in this 5 minute clip. There are
> very thoughtful critiques of democracy - or perhaps mob rule - from
> Aristotle to de Tocqueville, to Lenin, and to Mencken, which focus on
> specific mechanisms that make this system of government dysfunctional.
> However, none of it surfaces in Zizek's video clip. I am disappointed, even
> though I fully agree with his conclusions - that populist celebrity figures
> a la Berlusconi is the way of the future.
>
> Or putting it in a slightly different way - latter days politics bifurcated
> into two different spheres: the epiphenomenal sphere in which it took the
> form of professional wrestling, a quintessentially fake drama offering cheap
> thrills to the rabble, and the substantive sphere, largely hidden from the
> public view, in which it took the form of patronage or selling indulgences
> to those in the position to pay for them.
>
>
> Wojtek
>
>
> On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 8:09 AM, Ira Glazer <ira.glazer at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/video/2010/jul/06/slavoj-zizek-living-in-the-end-times
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