I honestly don't know where to begin with Dean. Thanks to Dan I have a better understanding of why her argument is structured as such - no historicity and constantly invoking a "we" or any number of the "we" variants ("us" and "ourselves" for example). I don't know what to do with my usual frames of argument (Who is this "we" anyway? And, am I really a part of it?) with the invocation of Lacan.
In the fragments I turn to Zizek and the article we read by him Ideology Reloaded. This isn't too crazy as Jodi Dean invokes the Matrix metaphor directly in this concluding chapter. In her reconfiguration of "neo-democracies", I think she is saying "Take the red pill."
Anyway - Zizek says,
"To put it in terms of the good old Marxist couple infrastructure/superstructure: One should take into account the irreducible duality of, on the one hand, the “objective” material socio-economic processes taking place in reality as well as, on the other hand, the politico-ideological process proper. What if the domain of politics is inherently “sterile,” a theater of shadows, but nonetheless crucial in transforming reality? So, although economy is the real site and politics a theater of shadows, the main fight is to be fought in politics and ideology."
What does Jodi Dean want to say to this?
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On another note I want to link to an article about recent conspiracy-theorism and anti-war activists. Here's just a teaser quote from the article:
"There is a virus sweeping the world. It infects opponents of the Bush government, sucks their brains out through their eyes and turns them into gibbering idiots."
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