{"id":4334,"date":"2009-10-28T19:59:08","date_gmt":"2009-10-28T23:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/?p=4334"},"modified":"2009-10-29T13:28:27","modified_gmt":"2009-10-29T17:28:27","slug":"4334","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/2009\/10\/28\/4334\/","title":{"rendered":"dean democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dean, Jodi. \u017di\u017eek’s Politics<\/em>. New York: Routledge. 2006. Print.<\/p>\n

\ud83d\ude42 Why do we all have such a hard on for democracy?<\/p>\n

\u017di\u017eek’s<\/em> answer is<\/p>\n

democracy is the form our attachment to Capital takes;<\/strong> it is the way we organize our enjoyment.\u00a0 He writes, “what prevents the radical question of ‘capitalism’ itself is precisely belief in the democratic form of the struggle against capitalism.” <\/em>Faithful to democracy, we eschew the demanding task of politicizing the economy and envisioning a different political order. (102)<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

With respect to the moral law, the stain of enjoyment does not involve any pathological content or empirical object. Rather, the wiping out of all pathological objects produces a new kind of nonpathological object \u2014 objet petit a<\/strong><\/em>, the object-cause of desire. (108)
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Thus, the crucial link between Kant and the Jacobins, between the categorical imperative and democratic invention, involves objet petit a<\/strong><\/em>: just as superego stains the moral law, so does it appear as a stain on the empty place of democracy. … This stain onthe empty place of democracy takes the form of the sublime, pure, body of the People, that is, of the Nation. … In this way, formal democracy is tied to a contingent, material contnet, to some sort of nation or ethnicity, to a fantasy point that resists universalization (109).<\/p>\n

… democracy is ultimately inseparable from nationalist violence.\u00a0 It is linked to the fantasy point of a people that calls it into being <\/strong>(113).<\/strong><\/p>\n

Once cultural politics morphed into capitalist culture, identity politics lost its radical edge (116).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dean, Jodi. \u017di\u017eek’s Politics. New York: Routledge. 2006. Print. \ud83d\ude42 Why do we all have such a hard on for democracy? \u017di\u017eek’s answer is democracy is the form our attachment to Capital takes; it is the way we organize our enjoyment.\u00a0 He writes, “what prevents the radical question of ‘capitalism’ itself is precisely belief in … Continue reading “dean democracy”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-objet-a","category-zizek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4334","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=4334"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4339,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4334\/revisions\/4339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}