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this guy zizek is a funny guy. i read his essay about Empire and hiscriticism about the deleuzo-guattarin elements in it. Ithought his commentsungrounded, and not founded in a serious reading oftheir text.I thought he was rather glib. Their text was a serious attempt toread politics back into philosophy. I think Empire is almostnaive in its beauty and its hope, and I sense this disturbsZizek. I think most readers were expecting the new Milles Plateaus...and what they got instead was an effort to createa new sense of morality and poltics. I think their use of D&G's ideas was in good faith, even if somewhat idealistic , but being idealisticdoes not preclude heroic. These days the practice of any politicsis almost bound to be a disaster and to risk what they did writing Empire was more thanheroic, it was epic. Epic works are neither easy to write or to complete.Because Zizek is a fast writer, I think he tends to be off hand sometimes, and evenglib. This comes from having a great facility, but it does not guarantee depth, andZizek in this sense is closer to Baudrillard.. and if any writer is known for beingflippant it's Baudrillard. I am not saying is false, but that he does not take his time. Hewrites fast as I suspect Zizek does. Whereas I think that Negri and Hardt were trying for something else, something grander and with more scope. I don't thinkthat Empire has had its time yet. It's a wonderful and aggravating book,a book that holds up our hopes and threatens to dash them to the ground inthe same breath. In other words, Empire is a real example of textual deterritorializing and reterritorializing, and one knows that this is not always an easy trip to live through.

this line of his is beau tifu l



'Perhaps, there is no greater love than that of a revolutionary couple, where each of the two lovers is ready to abandon the other at any moment if revolution demands it."--