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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

  Posted on Aug 29.09 to Camp, Capitalism, Commodity Fetishism, Communism, Gilles Deleuze, Militarism, Nationalism, Ottoman Empire, Palestine, Political Economy, Popular Culture, Post-nationalism, Psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud, United States of America   

• Love etc.

  A new single from Pet Shop Boys. Here are the almost Veblenian, or even perhaps Lacanian, lyrics. But I especially admire the line that refers to Gerhard Richter. I also embedded the video.
  You need more You need more You need more You need more
  You need more You need more You need more [...]

  Written by Saint ymM

  Posted on May 02.09 to Capitalism, Commodity Fetishism, Fantasy, Jacques Lacan, Political Economy, Pop, Popular Culture, The Society of Spectacle, Thorstein Veblen   

• Beyond “commodity fetishism”: the Wire and the political economy of drugs

  HBO series, the Wire, entered its fifth, and, unfortunately, the last season. Although I’ve wholeheartedly agreed that “the best thing ever happened to TV is Twin Peaks,” since I became an addict of the Wire, I felt the need to reconsider my allegiance. There are so many things to say about the Wire [...]

  Written by C-Blok

  Posted on Mar 13.08 to Camp, Capitalism, Class Analysis, Commodity Fetishism, Drug Trade, Feudalism, Identity, Neoliberalism, Political Economy, THE WIRE, Television