Open Letter to Slavoj Zizek


Dear Slavoj Zizek

I notice you never mention FEMINISM.  Is it out of fear or ignorance, I wonder.

You never debate with anyone either.   I am sure you would never dare debate with me.   

I have observed how you are really quite right-wing but continue to pretend that you are a Marxist, in the hope that no one would notice.  

I just watched http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gw8LPn4irao and saw that you ended by saying the Left would eventually triumph, rather than the Populist Right, for reasons I would suggest are incoherent and facile.   

However, I quite understand, because if you had said the opposite then your income and your invitations to speak would dry up instantly.   

Still , as you say you are a Marxist philosopher, I suppose it is worth asking if you are prepared to debate with a nationalist philosopher.   I do not anticipate an acceptance, because I would expect even a philosophical fraud to to know on which side his bread is buttered.

Claire Khaw

Comments

bigbadbull said…
I am not sure about your characterization of Zizek's politics (and to be sure, Zizek's politics is his interventions--he wants to provoke the left) but I am not sure its fair to say that Zizek has never engaged with feminism. In particular I am thinking of the book Contingency, Hegemony and Universality where he has a sustained dialogue with Ernesto Laclau and Judith Butler. Zizek disagrees with Judith on a number of points but I also know that they have a considerable appreciation for one another's work.
20 March 2012 at 16:10
Claire Khaw said…
Can you remember what Zizek said about feminism?
21 March 2012 at 13:14
Anonymous said…
Zizek is not the law or the church. He is just a person. He doesn't need to say anything about feminism, sun's longevity, infant hunger death in Africa, or natural disasters, no matter how important we might think these topics are.
14 November 2013 at 13:32
Claire Khaw said…
I was asking him as a philosopher, and he clearly does not want to answer.
14 November 2013 at 13:35
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