Gabriel Rockhill: Why Slavoj Žižek is Capitalism's Court Jester

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Gabriel Rockhill: Why Slavoj Žižek is Capitalism's Court Jester is the title of an interview of professor Gabriel Rockhill on Midwestern Marx, by Carlos L. Garrido.[1]

Outline / Notes

  • 2:36 Carlos asks Gabriel to explain his concept of the "Global Theory Industry (GTI)"
  • 3:38 Zizek pitches to the "youth culture"
  • 5:25 The only way to get published was to have someone with a lot of clout to write a preface
  • 5:59 Attack the ideas of Zizek, not the person. Also attack the system which produces Zizek-type thinkers.
  • 7:09 Zizek doesn't follow up on scholarly rigor
  • 7:31 This critique of Rockhill's is part of a larger book he's writing tentatively called "The Intellectual World War"
  • 8:30 Rockhill mentions that the GTI is dominated by people like Francis Fukuyama, Samuel P. Huntington
  • 8:40 Zizek et al. are "radical recuperators" of left-wing aesthetics
  • 9:29 The anti-communism of the Western left - the "Non-communist left"
  • 9:39 On "Totalitarianism" and how it was used to conflate communism with fascism
  • 11:41 Carlos replies and mentions "Controlled counter-hegemony" as being similar to "radical recuperators"
  • 12:44 Rockhill agrees that these thinkers "pitch to the capitalist apparatus of knowledge-production"
    • functions as a release valve
    • This drives the potentiality of radicalism into consumerism
  • 13:44 Carlos replies: Zizek is right about corporate activism
  • 14:21 Carlos asks Gabriel what Zizek's relationship with Socialist Yugoslavia was
  • 15:05 Gabriel mentions that Zizek was drawn to Western culture and intellectual
  • 16:00 Book mention: Michael Parenti's "To Kill a Nation: The Attack on Yugoslavia"
  • 16:24 The successes of socialist Yugoslavia, according to World Bank data
  • 17:27 On the importance of Zizek's first book

this outline is not completed, please assist in finishing it

  • 1:40:04 End