Stephen Dozeman
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He is also the author of Continental Philosophy and the Palestinian Question Beyond the
the Jew and the Greek, as well as theories, autoimmunity, skepticism, literature, and philosophy.
So Zahi, welcome to the New Books Network.
Uh thank you, Stephen.
Uh so to start, can you tell us a bit about yourself and what your main research interests tend to be?
All right, so to start we should get a few key terms or ideas on the table.
One of the first you bring up is what Zizek, following Sarah Ahmed, calls civil racism or racism with a friendly face.
This points to Zizek's popular quip about capitalism with a friendly face, so can you maybe unpack civil racism a bit?
Another key theme throughout Zizek's work is violence, which you split into subjective and objective violence, the latter of which then gets split into symbolic and systemic.
Can you unpack these terms a bit for us?
One thing that has often been a point of contention in Shizekian thought is his prioritization or emphasis on class at the expense of what we might simplistically refer to as identity in its various forms, such as gender, sexuality, race.
etc.
You argue that it's not as simple as simply making class a priority and making race a sort of secondary phenomena, but instead that it fits into a more dynamic understanding of fantasy and capitalist ideology.
So can you unpack Zhizek's understanding of ideology and how race here fits into it?
In chapter one, you highlight the difference between the multicultural liberal practice of quote checking your privilege and you contrast it with the Zizekian psychoanalytic Marxist practice of checking your fantasy.
Can you unpack privilege as you understand it here?
And how does Zizek find it ultimately to be a limited practice for addressing injustice?
And how is checking one's fantasy different and how does it
Uh make up for the shortcoming here.
You start putting Zizek later on in dialogue with Herbert Marcuse to discuss enjoyment and happiness and their relationship to the dynamics of capitalism.
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