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'''Gabriel Rockhill: Why Slavoj Žižek is Capitalism's Court Jester''' is the title of an interview of professor [[Gabriel Rockhill]] on [[Midwestern Marx]], by [[Carlos L. Garrido]].<ref>https://youtu.be/L5eSghtiBDg</ref>

== Outline / Notes ==

* [https://youtu.be/L5eSghtiBDg 0:00] Beginning 

* [https://youtu.be/L5eSghtiBDg?t=156 2:36] Carlos asks Gabriel to explain his concept of the "[[Global Theory Industry]] (GTI)" 
* [https://youtu.be/L5eSghtiBDg?t=218 3:38] Zizek pitches to the "youth culture"
* [https://youtu.be/L5eSghtiBDg?t=325 5:25] The only way to get published was to have someone with a lot of clout to write a preface
* [https://youtu.be/L5eSghtiBDg?t=359 5:59] Attack the ideas of Zizek, not the person. Also attack the system which produces Zizek-type thinkers. 
* [https://youtu.be/L5eSghtiBDg?t=429 7:09] Zizek doesn't follow up on scholarly rigor 
* [https://youtu.be/L5eSghtiBDg?t=451 7:31] This critique of Rockhill's is part of a larger book he's writing tentatively called "[[The Intellectual World War]]" 
* [https://youtu.be/L5eSghtiBDg?t=510 8:30] Rockhill mentions that the GTI is dominated by people like [[Francis Fukuyama]], [[Samuel P. Huntington]]
* [https://youtu.be/L5eSghtiBDg?t=520 8:40] Zizek et al. are "radical recuperators" of left-wing aesthetics
* [https://youtu.be/L5eSghtiBDg?t=569 9:29] The anti-communism of the Western left - the "[[Non-communist left]]" 
* [https://youtu.be/L5eSghtiBDg?t=579 9:39] On "[[Totalitarianism]]" and how it was used to conflate communism with fascism
* [https://youtu.be/L5eSghtiBDg?t=704 11:41] Carlos replies and mentions "Controlled counter-hegemony" as being similar to "radical recuperators" 
* [https://youtu.be/L5eSghtiBDg?t=764 12:44] Rockhill agrees that these thinkers "pitch to the capitalist apparatus of knowledge-production" 
** functions as a release valve 
** This drives the potentiality of radicalism into consumerism 
* [https://youtu.be/L5eSghtiBDg?t=824 13:44] Carlos replies: Zizek is right about corporate activism 
* [https://youtu.be/L5eSghtiBDg?t=861 14:21] Carlos asks Gabriel what Zizek's relationship with Socialist Yugoslavia was
* [https://youtu.be/L5eSghtiBDg?t=904 15:05] Gabriel mentions that Zizek was drawn to Western culture and intellectual 
* [https://youtu.be/L5eSghtiBDg?t=960 16:00] Book mention: Michael Parenti's "To Kill a Nation: The Attack on Yugoslavia" 
* [https://youtu.be/L5eSghtiBDg?t=984 16:24] The successes of socialist Yugoslavia, according to World Bank data 
* [https://youtu.be/L5eSghtiBDg?t=1047 17:27] On the importance of Zizek's first book 

this outline is not completed, please assist in finishing it

* 1:40:04 End 

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