A response by Slavoj Zizek and Fabien Tarby to an ad-hominem journalistic attack against Alain Badiou.

The new globalised company produces an ethical discourse based on confidence among the parties involved, respect for human rights, responsibility to the community and the environment … Social, labour and environmental rights are thus displaced towards soft, non-normative regulatory systems.

Following Jimmy Carter’s comments referring to the undelying racist dimension of the critiques against Obama’s new health reform policy proposals, this article by Barnor Hesse and S. Sayyid discusses the paradoxes of racism (here). Along the same lines, Katy Sian presents and offers her view on a recent BBC interview between Jeremy Paxman and Spike Lee [...]

Respect is established between equals “while tolerance is a vertical concept, typical of a stance that believes to be superior and therefore entitled to mark out the boundaries of what is tolerable and thus impose its views of the permissible on the tolerated.”

Our world is not complex but perfectly simple. So claims Alain Badiou in his “Saint Paul: The Foundation of Universality”, (1997, Stanford University Press, 2003). On the one side, the rule of abstract homogeneization imposed by capital has finally configured the world as a vast, extended market (world-market). On the other side, a culturalist and [...]

J. Ibarzabal’s ‘narrow’ focus ‘limited’ to “the constant construction of Basque socialism” also provides an insight into the totality of the liberation struggles that are taking place in today’s world constellation. by Imanol Galfarsoro

I’ve noted that Kishore’s article has taken some stick in the Indian blogsphere (read here). He seems to be accused of being too theoretical and prone to jargon. This article is a response to Kishore. Forgive me if my comments rake the finger further through the wound (… of your detractors that is) but my [...]

In a special to Subaltern Studies, Imanol Galfarsoro presents the kernel of Mignolo’s “Epistemic disobedience and the decolonial option: a manifesto” (Conference Proceedings Edited by Nelson-Maldonado Torres, Paradigm Press, forthcoming). He organises the material around questions dealing with critical theory, de-colonial thinking, de-colonial epistemic shift, tensions between modernity and logic of coloniality.

Here I will look at the issue of political practice. To do so I will draw from Slavoj Žižek’s publication of collected essays “The Universal Exception” (2006), most specifically, although by no means only, contained in “The prospects of radical politics today” (pp. 237-258) “A leftist plea for ‘Eurocentrism’” (pp.183-208) and “A plea for ‘passive [...]

When Kishore Budha posts the article Literary wars: Natives Vs Anglophones he also invites me to nose-dive right into the middle of another raging battle of the languages unfolding as we speak. As a Basque speaker, this is certainly not a topic I feel comfortable dealing with. However, since the whole (usually very local) debate [...]