Tag: democracy
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Democracy Against the Populist Temptation
In a 2009 lecture Slavoj Žižek developed a loosely connected but internally consistent set of claims about democratic legitimacy, the affective mechanics of populism, and the changing styles of political authority under contemporary capitalism. Speaking in a polemical yet diagnostic register, he framed his argument as a warning against the temptation to treat “the people”…
S. Gros
Simon Gros 