vimothy
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Zizek is typical of a very contemporary perspective, no? There is indeed a corner of the blog-world were Zizek is king. Seems to me that his 'politics' is a reaction to the failed '68er style of 'tactics but no strategy', of (Deleuzian) anti-fascism without ideology, etc. He represents is a turn back to old certainties (Lenin, e.g.) and the resurrection of a definite alternative to liberal democracy (even if it's not actually that much of an alternative).
Scared of being out in the forest with the rest of us, I believe. And that's especially ironic given the generic trope about none being more damned than Nietzsche's last man at the end of history picking and chosing beliefs as though it were all a supermarket and politics were lifestyle choices, you a-political losers, blah, blah, blah -- Zizek is in many ways the apogee of this trend: fraudulent, hipster totalitarianism, 'of course you shouldn't take him seriously... isn't it obvious?'
Scared of being out in the forest with the rest of us, I believe. And that's especially ironic given the generic trope about none being more damned than Nietzsche's last man at the end of history picking and chosing beliefs as though it were all a supermarket and politics were lifestyle choices, you a-political losers, blah, blah, blah -- Zizek is in many ways the apogee of this trend: fraudulent, hipster totalitarianism, 'of course you shouldn't take him seriously... isn't it obvious?'