How Slavoj Became Žižek

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• Bourdieu’s field theory, as elaborated in The Rules of Art and The Field of Cultural Production, has been specifically useful in analyzing the relationality of agents and their particular choices based on their position in a field.55 For this reason, field theory seems promising in its capacity to explain Žižek’s positioning. However, it suffers from some issues that make it less appropriate to our case. First, “fields” are not distinct by clear- cut and predefined borders as in Bourdieu’s opposition between the economic and the cultural, which leads to methodological “disinterest in the unrestricted and undifferentiated production of mass or popular culture.”56 Given Žižek’s intense engagement with popular culture, field theory may be too restrictive. Second, Bourdieu’s conception of inte... (查看原文)

  Walt 3赞 2023-02-25 00:07:01

• With that kind of global, public, and fierce critique, Žižek’s position became less attractive and outdated. He explained that there was a series of is sues that caused his negative positioning, as indicated by his decrease in citation indexes (fig. 4.5). It began with relation to Žižek’s position on ex- Yugoslavia, when parts of the European left redeemed Miloševic´ from his contribution to the Balkan Wars.103 Then, his marginalization continued with relation to his superpositioning (being neither for nor against) Greece’s exit from the European Union, or “Grexit,” while most (critical) intellectuals merely supported it. This negative positioning intensified with relation to the refugee (and migrant) crisis, whereby the common intellectual position was to support opening Europe and the ac... (查看原文)

  Walt 3赞 2023-02-25 23:36:56

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