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- Slavoj Zizek against Bernard-Henri Levy
There are a number of important moments, in particular look for the charity as a consumption practice or the violence of charity, the problem of zionist anti-semitism, the persistence of systemic violence in West Bank, the neccessity of communism in the advent of “new” commons, palin a as fascist, Hitler as a new age philosopher [...]
Written by Saint ymM
- McLuhan & Zizek
I watched a very good documentary on Marshall McLuhan yesterday, McLuhan’s Wake, courtesy of Eko –you know, that subliminal kid. It is not so much the director (Kevin McMahon), however, that is to be credited for the success of the documentary as the subject matter himself. The most interesting parts of the documentary for me [...]
Written by Keman Recel
- The Testimonies of Azmi and Hrant
“One of the difficulties in discussing violence in the 1948 war is that “Palestine,” the site of violence, both persists and has ceased to exist. Its simultaneous presence and erasure occurs in part through the survival of Palestinians from the 1948 war in what has ceased to be Palestine. Their scattered yet persistent presence constitutes [...]
Written by viola swamp
- The expansive politics of Azmi Bishara and Emily Jacir
In his recent book-manifesto, Hatred of Democracy, Jacques Rancière refers to citizen’s rights as the “rights of those who have not the rights that they have and have the rights that they have not.” Politics is sparked within the interval of this contradiction as the ‘have nots’ defy, through political practice, the arbitrary deprivation [...]
Written by C-Blok
- Adventures in Lacano-Marxism
Paul Allen Miller is a professor of comparative literature at the University of Southern Carolina. C-Blok, j.b., and I met him four years ago when he and his colleagues organized a conference on Psychoanalysis and Social Theory that the three of us went together. The conference is memorable for me for a number [...]
Written by Saint ymM
- “Netherlands proposes to ban burkas”
There are a couple of aspects of the matter that incites my interests in these–let me put it out there right away–racist laws. And, to be entirely honest, none of them really relate to the question of secularism. I identify as a secular subject, but these so-called defences of secularism leave me cold–to say the [...]
Written by Saint ymM
