Re: AUT: RE: what is to be done with what is to be done?

["Harald Beyer-Arnesen" <haraldba@xxxxxxxxx>]

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From: "Doug Henwood" <dhenwood@xxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Friday, October 29, 2004 3:32 PM
Subject: Re: AUT: RE: what is to be done with what is to be done?



Dough, I am not sure of the value of distributing the below on the list.

Harald


> This, of course, is my favorite part:
>
> >And then, of course, Doug Henwood, the extremely intelligent
> >and fantastically entertaining American Marxist finance journalist
finished
> >off the conference in great party-thrashing style (I recall a similar
> >performance at the Geert Lovink-initiated conference in Amsterdam, where
> >many of us met last year).
>
> But this is pretty interesting:
>
> >The conference was a disaster mostly because of Zizek's two hand-picked
> >sidekicks. One Sebastian Burgen (or something), your perfect cold-as-ice
> >Marxist sectarian psychopath politruk only too trigger-happy as the head
of
> >the conference . A self-acclaimed British Leninist-Trotskyist,
"Sebastian"
> >might just as well have been your average Mormon or Jehovah's Witness.
The
> >kind of guy who goes to Pyongyang to satisfy his sadist (or masochist)
taste
> >for oriental pussy and has few if any friends anywhere else. And a living
> >example of why we do NOT want to return to any "dictatorship" of the
> >proletariat. "Sebastian" would have had every Foucauldian and Deleuzian
in
> >the world killed his first minute in office...
> >"Sebastian" had consequently completely misunderstood Zizek's ambition
(as
> >if he was ever capable of understanding Zizek, his world was just "Zizek
is
> >OK cause he likes my Hero-God Lenin and has resources and fame") and
> >therefore filled half the schedule with mainly defunct and asocial
> >Trotskyists who had nothing but their classic, tiresome rubble to
perform.
> >And then "Sebastian" made sure dialogue at the conference was reduced to
an
> >absolute minimum.
>
> Really makes you want to run out & buy the book, doesn't it?
>
> Doug
>
>
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