Hari and the pomos.

"Zizek! is a painful film, almost the record of a philosophical nervous breakdown," writes Johann Hari in the New Statesman (which, for whatever reason, chooses to illustrate the review with a shot from The Pervert's Guide to Cinema). Hari catalogues Slavoj Zizek's endorsements of Lenin and general disdain for liberal democracy and then really gets going:

This kind of thought can only be entertained because nobody would ever take it seriously enough to act on it. When Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari say we should all become schizophrenic, when the gay Michel Foucault embraces the murderously homophobic Ayatollah Khomeini, when Zizek suggests a return to Leninist terror - these very positions are admissions that postmodernism is merely an unserious confection by intellectuals. It leads nowhere except to demoralisation and disaffection.

Whatever your position, this is a fiery Friday read.

Posted by dwhudson at April 27, 2007 6:42 AM