Rumors that “anarchists” who “hate” communist theorist Slavoj Zizek “smeared him” with a rumor that he was dating Lady Gaga are unfounded, and I feel partly responsible. On June 21, we published an article titled “Slavoj Zizek and Lady Gaga Aren’t Friends”to bust a rumor that was starting to go viral — that the most famous pop star [...]
Doug Henwood perfectly sums up The Atlantic’s great meeting of the minds, a symposium of think tankers exploring how to deal with the jobs crisis: “Wow, what a collection of tiny little “ideas” that “debate” gathers. It’s up there in tininess with Obama’s jones for patent law reform…Orthodox types usually prefer monetary to fiscal remedies, [...]
Jacobin Magazine has a substantial piece by Alan Johnson denouncing Zizek for being too… Jacobin: “Like the Jacobins, Žižek also refuses “recourse to a majority vote.” Like Mao, Žižek also treats people as “a clean sheet of paper with no blotches” on which he will write his “beautiful words.” …So: Hegelianism as a philosophical Blanquism; [...]
We need a reviewer for this book. The reviewer gets a free copy. From Girl w/Pen‘s interview with the author: ” I studied 50 U.S. activist groups from across the political spectrum, expecting to find engagement in a range of political strategies, but nearly every organization had the same strategy – attracting attention from the [...]
From Democracy Now!‘s transcript of the Julian Assange/Slavoj Zizek conversation moderated by Amy Goodman: SLAVOJ ZIZEK: Oh, look all the interesting news in the newspapers. Here this is happening, there Slavoj Zizek is dating Lady Gaga – totally not true. And here there’s Wikileaks. You effectively… AMY GOODMAN: Do we have a denial – an official [...]
The portrait that emerges is of a courageous person who cared about the welfare of other people. By William J. Kelleher, Ph.D. “Troublemaker” is the memoir of Bill Zimmerman, a 60s-through-70s activist who then became a professional political consultant for progressive candidates and causes. In part, it is an excellent history of the times, written [...]
Publisher’s description: ” In telling the stories of these politicians, economists, and financiers who declared a moral battle for freedom but instead gave rise to an age of greed, Madrick traces the lineage of some of our nation’s most pressing economic problems. He begins with Walter Wriston, head of what would become Citicorp, who led [...]
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