{"id":266,"date":"2008-09-03T02:47:50","date_gmt":"2008-09-03T06:47:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/?p=266"},"modified":"2008-09-14T00:48:45","modified_gmt":"2008-09-14T04:48:45","slug":"criticism-of-laclau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/2008\/09\/03\/criticism-of-laclau\/","title":{"rendered":"Criticism of Laclau"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Slovoj Zizek, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The Plague Of Fantasies<\/span>, Verso, 1997.<\/p>\n<p>The necessary failure here is structural:\u00a0 it is not simply that, because of the empirical complexity of the situation, all particular progressive fights will never be united, that &#8216;wrong&#8217; chains of equivalences will always occur (say, the enchainment of the fight for African-American ethnic identity with patriarchal domination and homophobic attitudes), but rather, that occurrences of &#8216;wrong&#8217; enchainments are grounded in the very structuring principle of today&#8217;s progressive politics of establishing &#8216;chains of equivalences&#8217;: the very domain of the multitude of particular struggles, with their continuously shifting displacements and condensations, is sustained by the &#8216;repression&#8217; of the key role of economic struggle.\u00a0 The Leftist politics of the &#8216;chains of equivalences&#8217; among the plurality of struggles is strictly correlative to the abandonment of the analysis of capitalism as a global economic system &#8212; that is, to the tacit acceptance of capitalist economic relations and liberal-democratic politics as the unquestioned framework of our social life (128)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Slovoj Zizek, The Plague Of Fantasies, Verso, 1997. The necessary failure here is structural:\u00a0 it is not simply that, because of the empirical complexity of the situation, all particular progressive fights will never be united, that &#8216;wrong&#8217; chains of equivalences will always occur (say, the enchainment of the fight for African-American ethnic identity with patriarchal &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/2008\/09\/03\/criticism-of-laclau\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Criticism of Laclau&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-zizek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":619,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266\/revisions\/619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}