Re-activating the democratic revolution: The politics of transformation beyond reoccupation and conformism

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Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 56-71

  Stavrakakis, Yannis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 22644441232     PISSN: 13534645     EISSN: 1460700X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1353464032000065008     Document Type: Review

References (55)

1. Ernesto Laclau, New Reflections on the Revolution of our Time (London: Verso, 1990), p.26
2. Diana Coole, Negativity and Politics (London: Routledge, 2000), p.6
3. Coole, Negativity and Poltics, p.230
4. Laclau, New Reflections on the Revolution of our Time, p.36
5. The concept of reoccupation is used here in the sense introduced by Hans Blumenberg. See Hans Blumenberg, The Legitimacy of the Modern Age (Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 1983)
6. Coole, Negativity and Politics, p.231
7. For a more detailed elaboration see Yannis Stavrakakis, Lacan and the Political (London: Routledge, 1999), ch. 3
8. Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe, Hegemony and Socialist Strategy (London: Verso, 1985), p.177
9. Alain Badiou, Manifesto for Philosophy (Albany: SUNY, 1999), p.133
10. I am relying here on arguments put forward and elaborated in detail in ch. 4 of Stavrakakis, Lacan and the Political
11. For an analysis along these lines, see Slavoj Žižek, 'I Hear You With My Eyes', in Slavoj Žižek and Renata Salecl [eds], Gaze and Voice as Love Objects (Durham: Duke University Press, 1996), p.116
12. Žižek, 'I Hear You With My Eyes', p.118. 17 The ordering of the three responses presented here is logical and not chronological
13. On the limits of de Tocqueville's approach and the way it can be fruitfully utilized, see Claude Lefort, Democracy and Political Theory (Cambridge: Polity, 1988), pp.14-15
14. Claude Lefort, The Political Forms of Modern Society (Cambridge:Polity, 1986), pp.303-4
15. Jacques Ranciere, On the Shores of Politics (London: Verso, 1995), p.177
16. Jacques Ranciere, Dis-agreement (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1999), pp.95-121
17. Ranciere, Dis-agreement, pp.97-8
18. For a Lacanian analysis of advertising discourse and consumerism, see Yannis Stavrakakis, 'On the Critique of Advertising Discrourse: A Lacanian View', Third Text, no. 51, (2000)
19. Colin Crouch, Coping with Post-democracy (London: Fabian Society, 2000), p.2
20. Chantal Mouffe, The Democratic Paradox (London: Verso, 2000)
21. Susan Buck-Morris, Dreamworld and Catastrophe (Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 2000), p.188
22. Badiou, Manifesto for Philosophy, p.132
23. Also see Žižek in Butler et al, Contingency, Hegemony, Universality: Contemporary Dialogues on the Left, p.322 for a list of similar side-effects
24. For a general discussion of the politics of radical democracy, see David Trend, Radical Democracy (New York: Routledge, 1996). In the context of this paper we will concentrate on Laclau and Mouffe's radical democratic project (with a Lacanian twist)
25. See Jason Glynos, 'Radical Democracy: Democratic Theory from an Anti-essentialist Perspective' Essex Papers in Politics and Government, Sub-series in Ideology and Discourse Analysis, no. 17, (2001), pp.4-5
26. Glynos, 'Radical Democracy: Democratic Theory from an Anti-essentialist Perspective', p.6
27. See, in this respect, Stavrakakis, Lacan and the Political, ch. 5
28. Also see Chantal Mouffe, The Democratic Paradox, pp.129-140
29. Slavoj Žižek, On Belief (London: Routedge, 2001), p.123
30. Ernesto Laclau, 'Structure, History and the Political', Butler et al, Contingency, Hegemony, Universality: Contemporary Dialogues on the Left, p.204
31. Freud, 'Mourning and Melancholia, p.254
32. For a Žižekian take on mourning and melancholia', see Slavoj Žižek, Did Somebody say Totalitarianism? (London: Verso, 2001), ch. 4
33. Alain Badiou, Ethics: An Essay on the Understanding of Evil (London: Verso, 2001)
34. Butler et al, Contingency, Hegemony, Universality: Contemporary Dialogues on the Left, 2000
35. Slavoj Žižek, 'Holding the Place', in Butler et al, Contingency, Hegemony, Universality: Contemporary Dialogues on the Left, p.321
36. Žižek, 'Class Struggle or Postmodernism? Yes please!', p.101
37. Laclan, 'Structure, History and the Political', p.197
38. Zīžek, 'Class Struggle or Postmodernism? Yes please!', p.100
39. Ernesto Laclau 'Structure, History and the Political', p.199
40. Žižek, 'Holding the Place', p.322
41. Žižek, On Belief, p.31
42. A similar position is put forward by Ranciere. According to Ranciere, Ethics functions today as the final form in which the elimination of politics is attempted. Also see, in this respect, his critique of humanitarianism in Ranciere, Dis-aggreement, p.135
43. For examples from his recent work, Slavoj Žižek, Did Somebody say Totalitarianism?, ch. 4
44. Chantal Mouffe, 'The End of Politics and the Challenge of Right-Wing Populism', unpublished paper, p.ll
45. For a more detailed discussion of this point see Peter Dews, 'Uncategorical Imperatives: Adorno, Badiou and the Ethical Turn', Radical Philosophy, no. 111 (2002), p.36
46. Badiou, Ethics: An Essay on the Understanding of Evil, p.28
47. Jacques Lacan, The Ethics of Psychoanalysis (London: Routledge, 1993), p.96
48. Lacan, The Ethics of Psychoanalysis, p.300
49. See, in this respect, Slavoj Žižek, 'Psychoanalysis in Post-Marxism: The Case of Alain Badiou', The South Atlantic Quarterly vol. 97, no. 2, (1998), p.258
50. Jason Barker, Alain Badiou: A Critical Introduction (London: Pluto Press, 2002), p.139
51. Barker, Alain Badiou: A Critical Introduction, p.84
52. Simon Critchley, 'Demanding Approval: On the Ethics of Alain Badiou', Radical Philosophy, no. 100, (2000), pp.24, 27
53. Alain Badiou, 'The Concept of Democracy', Lacanian Ink, no. 16, (2000), p.30
54. Badiou, 'The Concept of Democracy', p.35
55. Alain Badiou & Peter Hallward, 'Politics and Philosophy: An Interview with Alain Badiou', Angelaki, vol. 3, no. 3, (1998), p.121