> > > I'm never sure what all fuss about Zizek is. He seems to me like the
> > > Hipster's Marxist, and a thoroughly obtuse one at that. Maybe someone
> on
> > > this list can explain the fascination with his ideas.
>
He is now a genuine hipster's Marxist, but his writing never strikes me as
too difficult to understand, provided you feel that issues like language are
important, and he has become popular among hipsters by trying very, very
hard to insult and offend them (and other American liberals). For some
reason, they just love him more because of this, even when it leads him to
say very, very stupid things. ("A leftist plea for Eurocentrism"???? don't
even joke about that!)
However, if you go back and look at his early work on cynicism, I believe
you will find a very useful contribution to the Marxist literature on
ideology. (Mainly in Sublime Object of Ideology.) He has been trying to
repeat that ever since.
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