tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9085806408974831811.post5043723312771506046..comments2023-11-03T06:49:06.257-04:00Comments on Alexander Greenberg's Blog: Alex Greenberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12835512384688605301noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9085806408974831811.post-57137752051012092662009-06-05T09:17:19.497-04:002009-06-05T09:17:19.497-04:00Thanks for passing this on, Alex. Zizek's deco...Thanks for passing this on, Alex. Zizek's decontextualized gloss on Lenin is symptomatic of academic intellectuals' bourgeois appropriation of the idea of revolution (i.e., the radical overhauling the social order). Such appropriation is one of the surest means of securing academic star status in the corporate university. To be sure, intellectuals like Zizek have no sense of responsibility to the historical contexts for revolution -- they throw around quotations by Marx, Lenin, Trotsky, Goldmann, Newton, etc. in the most self-serving and social capital-building ways. Yet all of this remains tacitly accepted in our profession; it's as though we can't puncture the ideology subtending "radical chic" for fear that we'd be undoing our own social advancement. My hope is for our generation of scholars to leave such bald posturing behind us as we tarry with the conditions of possibility of our own intellectual work.Kinohi Nishikawahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09642784424745225861noreply@blogger.com