/lit/ - Literature

>>10123643
lolwtf why are you paying for grad school? If your institution isn´t funding you they don´t believe in you, especially at the PhD level, and everybody who ever looks at your resume will know that they didn´t believe in you enough to fund you.

>>7800451
I'm really surprised that Zizek is taking the mantle, since there still seems to be a large undercurrent against primarily Marxist theoretical bases for a while, and apart from talking about Lacan as well, so much of Zizek's work seems to be pretty standard Marxist readings of things.

Derrida helped provide the basis for moving past Marxism that the Post-colonialists utilized. I can understand why people have gotten tired of Post-colonialism. It becomes very limiting in application, and often it draws very similar conclusions in many situations. Anyway, I feel like it would make sense to try to build off Post-colonial critique, or go back to Derrida, or just try to build a new critical base. Zizek just seems oddly traditional to be the flagbearer. I'm not arguing that he's not. I'm just surprised that he is. I guess it's just his odd charisma.