Stephen Dozeman
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315 appearances
4 recordings
1 series
first heard Jan 2020
last heard Apr 2020
Stephen Dozeman’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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What was Marcuse's original analysis of the relationship between these forces and how does it inform your and Gizek's critique of neoliberal multiculturalism?
Looking at the situation in Israel and Palestine, you turn to Emanuel Levinas' analysis of the situation, which you and Zizek feel falls flat.
What was Levinas' use of otherness to try and untangle the situation in Palestine?
And why in Zizek's account does it fail to really address the problem?
Zizek's own counter solution that you just brought up is to embrace the biblical dictum to love the neighbor, although this has for him a very radical meaning.
So can you explain what he means by
commanding us to love our neighbors and how would it apply to either the situation in Palestine or the refugee crisis in Europe to provide a couple potential examples.
Turning to postcolonial theory, Zizek, along with several of his peers, has regularly gotten into hot water because of a more Eurocentric vision of emancipation.
You connect this to an older debate between Jean-Paul Sartre's existential Marxism and Franz Fanon's post-colonial theory.
So, what was going on in this original debate, and in what ways do
Do G Jack's contemporary comments as well as the pushback against them repeat this.
You turn to Zizek's ontology of the parallax, a fractured reality incapable of ever being totally whole as a way of trying to address the Israel Palestine conflict.
Can you unpack Zizek's philosophical approach here and how does it help us maybe think more productively about a situation such as the one in the Middle East right now?
Sure.
Turning to fantasies around race, you turn to Lacan's pathology of suspicion.
What are Lacan and by extension Z Jack getting at with this pathology?
And how does it help us think about uh ideological responses to situations such as you talk about Hurricane Katrina, for example?
Turning to one of Zizek's most famous, but also misunderstood pronouncements, he famously wrote that Gandhi was more violent than Hitler.
And you could maybe extend this statement to Martin Luther King, although this is obviously going to strike many likely more liberal commentators as ridiculous, although that's part of what makes it such a great Zizekian quip, is that it seems so counterintuitive.
Can you unpack what G Jack means here and why
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