"These words simply demonstrate that today’s liberal-democratic state and the dream of an ‘infinitely demanding’ anarchic politics exist in a relationship of mutual parasitism: anarchic agents do the ethical thinking, and the state does the work of running and regulating society." Slavoj Žižek pisses on Simon Critchley (2003 interview, recent smackdown by Brian Leiter) from a lofty perch indeed, and it sparkles in the sunlight.
Wolfgang Schneider lends us a little extra background on the literary context from which Žižek sprang, a Slovenian canon "taken up with the hard rural life" and "infused with a whiff of bondage and dunghills"... «MORE»
Wolfgang Schneider lends us a little extra background on the literary context from which Žižek sprang, a Slovenian canon "taken up with the hard rural life" and "infused with a whiff of bondage and dunghills"... «MORE»
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