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The Clown Of Counterpunch: Gabriel Rockhill

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General notes on a trash article by ‘Gabriel Rockhill’ that I call out as nakedly reactionary, pseudo-critical, cherry picked, extremely bad faith bullshit: https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/01/02/capitalisms-court-jester-slavoj-zizek/ I’m not equipped to handle even this much Zizek, but Gabe’s text seemed almost masturbatory. Hidden under what appears to be a deliberately obscure and convoluted writing is a ‘rethink’ that … Read more

The Times Literary Supplement Hit Piece On Slavoj Zizek

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RND// To consider notes toward a response re: the desperately blatant ad hominem hit piece on Slavoj Zizek and his book Pandemic! (Becca Rothfeld, Times Literary Supplement, February 5 2021.) Note to anyone living outside Dismaland: The T.L.S is a corporation owned cultural institution of supposedly progressive, actually just reactionary, pseudo-liberal, conservative (small and big … Read more