Aijaz Ahmad: Nationalism, Post-colonialism, Communism

Gregory Elliott, Francis Mulhern and Peter Osborne ~ RP 076 (Mar/Apr 1996) ~ Interview

INTERVIEW AijazAhmad Nationalism, Post-colonialism, Communism RP: Could we begin by asking you to tell us something about your background? Ahmad: I was born in India towards the end of colonial rule, so I was very much a child of nationalism. I came from a rather traditional rural family, but my father was a left-of-centre nationalist. […]

Why Should a Dialectician Learn to Count to Four?

Slavoj Žižek ~ RP 058 (Summer 1991), pp. 3–9 ~ Article

Why Should a Dialectician Learn to Count to Four? Slavoj Zizek The triad and its excess How far must a Hegelian dialectician learn to count? Most of the interpreters of Hegel, not to mention his critics, are trying to convince us in unison that the right answer reads: to three (the dialectical triad, etc.). Moreover, […]