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[edit | edit source]
- 0:00 Beginning
- 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
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- 1:40:04 End