tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post882400419618579425..comments2024-03-10T20:46:19.274-04:00Comments on In the Middle: the glimmer of fire portendsCord J. Whitakerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06224143153295429986noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-26920554845243010772011-04-03T11:13:12.828-04:002011-04-03T11:13:12.828-04:00You would think I'd have a clear and cogent an...You would think I'd have a clear and cogent answer, but I don't. The best I can say is that I am not finding Zizek and Lacan as useful to exploring the questions raised by my current research (on materiality, objects, agency and queer ecologies) as I do other (nonpsychoanalytically inclined) theorists -- Jane Bennett, Bruno Latour, Gilles Deleuze, and Graham Harman among them. <br /><br />Maybe, to venture a big answer, they end up being too anthropocentric, and not very good for mapping the nonhuman world.Jeffrey Cohenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17346504393740520542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-69545726064782436492011-04-03T00:14:13.524-04:002011-04-03T00:14:13.524-04:00Alright, as one who has just taught Zizek, I'l...Alright, as one who has just taught Zizek, I'll bite (my students would expect no less). Why . . .?Tom Prendergasthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14755519712825296960noreply@blogger.com