Protest blir fetischism - Zizek
Slavoj Žižeks analys av fetischism som falsk aktivism blir en skarp - och smärtsam - kritik av den lagliga protesten.
Protesten är mycket väl medveten om sin lydiga undergivenhet. Men lydnaden spelar ingen roll eftersom makten ju har genomskådats. Genom att fnysa åt kapitalismens dumheter uppfattar protesten sig fri från delaktighet i våld och förtryck.
"It enables you to fully participate in the frantic pace of the capitalist game while sustaining the perception that you are not really in it; that you are well aware of how worthless this spectacle is"
Protestens kraft skymmer laglydnad
Protestens laglydnad avfärdas eftersom kraft utvinns ur protesten. "Men ni känner väl! Vilken kraft!" Protestens fantastiska kraft blir mer verklig än den laglydiga hörsamheten. Lydnaden blir diffus, föses undan och uppfattas inte som det relevanta.
"you know you can always with-draw. In a further specification, one should note that the fetish can function in two opposite ways: either its role remains unconscious ... or you think that the fetish is that which really matters, ... unaware that the "truth" of his existence is in fact the social involvement which he tends to dismiss as a mere game."
Protesten är realistisk
Själv har jag ibland kritiserat protest för att den skapar idealistiska illusioner om samhällsförändring. Protestens fetischistiska kraft blir en magisk önskedröm om kraftfull politisk påverkan. Protesten skulle innehålla någon sorts kraft som påverkar och skapar förändring. Men med Zizeks analys blir protesten realistisk snarare än drömmande. Protesten förstår mycket väl hur lydnad gör vapenhandel, krig och svält möjliga. Detta skapar ett fruktansvärt tryck på oss. Vår lydnad dödar tragiskt nog många fler än alla terrorister tillsammans. Den fetischistiska kraften i protesten tar dock bort detta hemska politiska och moraliska tryck som verkligheten lägger på oss.
"Fetishists are not dreamers lost in their private worlds. They are thorough "realists" capable of accepting the way things effectively are, given that they have their fetish to which they can cling in order to cancel the full impact of reality."
Falsk aktivism
Fetischism gör det möjligt att skapa en falsk aktivism. Protesten föreställer sig som kraftfull och aktiv när den egentligen är passiv.
"This allows us to propose the notion of false activity: you think you are active, while your true position, as it is embodied in the fetish, is passive"
Här skulle jag dock möjligen använda passiv annorlunda än Zizek? Passivitet är lika aktivt deltagande som andra former av deltagande. Att frånsäga sig regerandet och ingripande är en aktiv handling. Att distansera sig som kritisk åskådare är att aktivt delta.
Per Herngren
2013 07 01, version 0.1.2
2013 07 01, version 0.1.2
Slavoj Žižek om fetischism
"This allows us to propose the notion of false activity: you think you are active, while your true position, as it is embodied in the fetish, is passive…"
Slavoj Zizek, The Interpassive Subject Fetish between structure and humanism, http://www.egs.edu/faculty/slavoj-zizek/articles/the-interpassive-subject.
Slavoj Zizek, The Interpassive Subject Fetish between structure and humanism, http://www.egs.edu/faculty/slavoj-zizek/articles/the-interpassive-subject.
"Fetishists are not dreamers lost in their private worlds. They are thorough "realists" capable of accepting the way things effectively are, given that they have their fetish to which they can cling in order to cancel the full impact of reality."
Slavoj Žižek, "From Western Marxism to Western Buddhism", Cabinet Magazine Issue 2 Mapping Conversations, 2001.
Slavoj Žižek, "From Western Marxism to Western Buddhism", Cabinet Magazine Issue 2 Mapping Conversations, 2001.
Buddhism i väst
"'Western Buddhism' is such a fetish. It enables you to fully participate in the frantic pace of the capitalist game while sustaining the perception that you are not really in it; that you are well aware of how worthless this spectacle is; and that what really matters to you is the peace of the inner Self to which you know you can always with-draw. In a further specification, one should note that the fetish can function in two opposite ways: either its role remains unconscious ... or you think that the fetish is that which really matters, as in the case of a Western Buddhist unaware that the "truth" of his existence is in fact the social involvement which he tends to dismiss as a mere game."
Slavoj Žižek, "From Western Marxism to Western Buddhism", Cabinet Magazine Issue 2 Mapping Conversations, 2001.
Slavoj Žižek, "From Western Marxism to Western Buddhism", Cabinet Magazine Issue 2 Mapping Conversations, 2001.
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