Re: AUT: Re: RE: Zizek

[Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx>]

>Angela,
>
>Personally, I like Proyect's completely assinine anti-intellectualism and
>jackass mentality. Hey Louis, been threatened by those violent News and
>Letters economists lately?
>
>Cheers,
>Chris

Hi, Chris. I meant to ask you. What does this mean:

"Some people have read alienation as 'alienation from what is possible', from
an ecstatic humanity, a not-yet-but-possible humanity.  Rather than see it
as something pre-defined, we could argue that we have had, for the entirety
of human existence, seen glimpses of this possible, from this humanity as
its own end.  In that sense, I think that the humanity underlying alienation
is a negative humanity, a negation of humanity-against-itslef which does not
claim to know exactly what humanity for itself will mean just yet, merely
that it is possible."

Isn't this just word salad? Here, let me give it a try:

"Only through praxis can the subject transcend the self-negating object.
Commodity production in the post-Fordist realm has been articulated with
the reified self. But in a post-Lacanian project that transforms
*ungespritzlitchzetzen* (a term coined by Adorno that is untranslatable--it
roughly means existential emptiness bordering on heartburn) into libidinous
self-actualization, the proletariat can achieve multitudinization."



BTW, asinine has one "s".



Louis Proyect
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