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Žižek’s China, China’s Žižek
- positions: east asia cultures critique
- Duke University Press
- Volume 19, Number 3, Winter 2011
- pp. 723-737
- Article
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Among the many theories that evaluate “made by Žižek” and “made in China,” history reveals an uncanny similarity. Both of them unexpectedly project the complexity and nuances of the capitalist imaginary in the post-cold war era of globalization. They are both sorts of “global commodities” piercing the limits of culture and history to announce themselves in the West.