purves grundy
ambient clown remix
Someone's just given me this book. I know it's (in)famous, I'm aware it's post-Marxist, but I'm sure it demands a working knowledge of Marxism to begin with which is beyond mine. Anybody read it?
Laclau and Mouffe's 'Hegemony and Socialist Strategy'
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I've not read it but I had dinner with Ernesto Laclau a couple of weeks ago. He's a regular in a pub my best friend's girlfriend works in. Nice fella, appalling English considering he's lived here for over 30 years. Some great anecdotes about the Argentinian coups and Slavoj Zizek phoning him in the middle of the night to tell him dirty jokes.
Agonism within democracy. He's a reformist and a social democrat.
Agonism within democracy. He's a reformist and a social democrat.
revol68
what, fucking what?
Yep pretty much, radicalism as a long march of pushing boundaries further and further, a generalised resistance of all the marginalised broadening out 'democracy', with no central contradiction with the potential to blow the foundations sky high.
The whole motion of class being just another form of oppression like sexism, racism, homophobia etc rather than the fundamental organising principle through which all those other oppressions are mediated and refracted. It takes class as just another identity politic.
goldenecitrone
post tenebras lux
Had a go but can't see what Mouffe's driving at. 
Idris2002
canadian girlfriend
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
One area in which they could profitably have followed Althusser.
They've been married for decades. She used to be one of his students.
Had a go but can't see what Mouffe's driving at.
*tries to think up Mouffe diving joke*
Idris2002
canadian girlfriend
It was different in their generation, I suppose. You wouldn't get away with marrying a student today.
Eh? It still happens. Who on earth wouldn't let two adults 'get away' with it?
purves grundy
ambient clown remix
Idris2002
canadian girlfriend
Jeff Robinson
Marxist-Lentilist: Jackboots and Jackfruit
Has Laclau really influenced anybody at all, other than a tiny gaggle of poststructualist professors?
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
His work on populism does lay behind/strongly influences the strategies of a lot of latin american and southern european social movements - there has been a def upswing in interest since his death - after near 20 years of very little.
gawkrodger
Well-Known Member
I completed an Urban Studies MSc last year and all the architects/planners/urban designer Bartlett types loved Laclau and to a greater extent Mouffe. Agonistic pluralism got much love.
Which is telling
Which is telling
