{"id":637,"date":"2008-09-25T03:32:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-25T11:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/?p=637"},"modified":"2008-09-25T03:32:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-25T11:32:00","slug":"slavoj-zizek-is-at-it-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/slavoj-zizek-is-at-it-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Slavoj Zizek is at it again"},"content":{"rendered":"

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An hour-long interview by Chris Lydon with the neo-leninist enfant terrible of theory. Encounters of the n-th kind with American politics, the election, racist jokes, film, etc. Via open-source: click here<\/a>. Here’s the open source blurb:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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In New York on the last day of an American tour, absorbing the demise of Yankee Stadium and maybe of Wall Street as we thought we knew it, Zizek\u2019s talk is a blast-furnace but not a blur. The theme through all Zizek\u2019s gags is that the financial meltdown marks a seriously dangerous moment \u2014 dangerous not least because, as in the interpretation of 9.11, the right wing is ready to impose a narrative. And the left wing is caught without a narrative or a theory. \u201cToday is the time for theory,\u201d he says. \u201cTime to withdraw and think.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Dangerous moments are coming. Dangerous moments are always also a chance to do something. But in such dangerous moments, you have to think, you have to try to understand. And today obviously all the predominant narratives \u2014 the old liberal-left welfare state narrative; the post-modern third-way left narrative; the neo-conservative narrative; and of course the old standard Marxist narrative \u2014 they don\u2019t work. We don\u2019t have a narrative. Where are we? Where are we going? What to do? You know, we have these stupid elementary questions: Is capitalism here to stay? Are there serious limits to capitalism? Can we imagine a popular mobilization outside democracy? How should we properly react to ecology? What does it mean, all the biogenetic stuff? How to deal with intellectual property today? Things are happening. We don\u2019t have a proper approach. It\u2019s not only that we don\u2019t have the answers. We don\u2019t even have the right question.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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