AUT: Zizek being annoying

[andrew robinson <ldxar1@xxxxxxxxx>]

I'm currently reading Zizek's book on Deleuze, having
just finished The Puppet and the Dwarf... and I'm glad
I'm not the only one he's annoying right now.  His
latest theory - repeated ad nauseum in both books - is
that radical change isn't really about changing
external phenomena or relations at all - it's just
about changing how you see things... For instance,
Redemption is not the reversal of the Fall, but is how
we come to see in what we used to see as Fall, a
Redemption instead... "true radicality does not
consist in going to the extreme and destroying the
system... but consists in changing the very
coordinates that define this balance" (Deleuze book p.
73), so in fact the way to resist is... not to resist,
instead to identify totally with the social order - to
view the present as already redeemed...

And this, just when I'd thought (with his stuff around
the time of 911) he was moving in a more radical
direction.  Now we're straight back with all the
conservative Lacanian stuff.  "Philosophers have only
changed the world in various ways; the point, however,
is to change it"...


		
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