“Was not their mistake once more bred of the life of slavery that they had been living?—a life which was always looking upon everything, except mankind, animate and inanimate—‘nature,’ as people used to call it—as one thing, and mankind as another, it was natural to people thinking in this way, that they should try to make ‘nature’ their slave, since they thought ‘nature’ was something outside them” — William Morris


Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Žižek on OWS



The byline says “Slavoj Žižek is regarded as one of the ideological pioneers of the Occupy movement.” If you really wanted an “ideological pioneer” of OWS you might choose to interview David Graeber, and not Žižek, but never mind.

1 comment:

karen said...

Spot on Tim but Graeber does say in his books that he has no desire to lead an ideological movement, like yourself, he is anti vanguard.

After suspending myself from uni last session, come february I will be writing up my thesis. Hope to send you a draft of the chapter on your good self by early march. Daunting task.