Driftwork

28/05/08

an american in a hotel

Filed under: culture, philosophy — sdv @ 09:36:57 am

H in the hotel for two breakfasts running so wanted to believe that a libertarian was somehow a better being, a better ideological proposition than a neo-con. There was something sad about an American who wanted his America to be more liberal than the state apparatus he had never struggled against. (As if passivity was a positive value…) His argument against direct democracy was based on ignorance and identification rather than the constraints of equality and the limits of what a person, a society may desire and possess.

19/05/08

Parrhesia and a Zizek text

Filed under: culture, philosophy — sdv @ 03:45:44 pm

Ah look - suddenly across my increasing silent virtual desk a new edition of parrhesia appears and then a copy of Zizek’s “In Defense of Lost Causes” for possible review…

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