On 5/19/13 2:56 PM, [email protected] wrote: > **"Louis Proyect" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Honestly, I don't get it it. The Elvis super-star of Marxism? > > > http://inthesetimes.com/article/2122/revenge_of_global_finance/ > > Slavoj Žižek is a postmodern Marxist. > > Some of us with a science and math background have problems > understanding postmodernism. And I know of one history Phd that also has > a problem with it. >
Technically speaking he is not a postmodernist although he is very much indebted to Lacan, a pomo fave. I think that Zizek is basically sui generis, with an odd mixture of "Leninist" orthodoxy, at least as he sees it, with a sort of stream of consciousness prose style that mashes up blockbuster movies with whatever else pops into his head. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
