I think maybe I'll write in red ink today

[lotesse]

Slavoj Zizek on Occupy Wall Street: "Here we don’t think of prohibition. Because the ruling system has even suppressed our capacity to dream. Look at the movies that we see all the time. It’s easy to imagine the end of the world. An asteroid destroying all life and so on. But you cannot imagine the end of capitalism."

I'm debating taking this in to my comp students today - we're reading Frederic Jameson on utopia, and Zizek's work is certainly relevant to the intersection of sf and politics. I think I will - I love utopias. To imagine the place we've never been, so that maybe someday we can get there. They're really very useful things!

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[laughingrat]

Oh yes, oh yes. That's why I call envisioning the end of patriarchy "utopian." We can barely even imagine what it would be like, to be without a culture of oppression. That's how pervasive it is!

I hope your students enjoy the class! It sounds like something I would have liked hearing about when I was in undergrad.

[lotesse]

Patriarchy: I wish it weren't - but oh, it is.