Stephen Dozeman
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315 appearances
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first heard Jan 2020
last heard Apr 2020
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Right.
So you kind of alluded this in your last, to this in your last answer, but kind of Zizek has this sort of, uh, there was this kind of, uh,
appropriation of Marxist-Leninist kind of theories of history in the kind of Stalinist or Soviet paradigms.
And you kind of talk about how he, along with Alain Badiou, endorsed this dialectical materialism as opposed to kind of a democratic materialism.
Yeah.
So there's kind of a question there of what is he trying to push back against with his own form of materialism?
And this kind of is an interesting place where theory and politics are kind of intersecting in some complicated ways because he's trying to kind of pick up a legacy that has definitely been...
tarnished by certain historical horrors.
What's he trying to get at here?
Yeah, so kind of moving on, we're like at the last chapter at this point.
You draw attention to kind of one of the core things that has kind of united much of Zizek's work is the synthesis of idealism and psychoanalysis.
You look in particular at his kind of synthesis of Kantian law and the Lacanian act.
Can you kind of unpack what Zizek's doing by kind of putting these two together?
Yeah, this radical negativity is kind of at the core of his ontological project.
So kind of...
Along these lines, we're kind of talking about freedom and negating kind of being on rails, so to speak.
You quote Zizek, he writes, we are free because there is a lack in the other, because the substance out of which we grew and on which we rely is inconsistent, barred, failed, marked by impossibility.
And you then kind of jump off of this and kind of the discussion of drives and talk about Zizekian compatibilism, you know, versus like neurobiological determinism a la Dan Dennett.
So kind of how does your account of like neuroscience kind of fit in or fit?
supplement Zizek's ontological project?
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