Today I’m going to see Kojin Karatani at the university of chicago. he’s an anarchist, or an ‘associationist’ these days, talking about “Toward World Republic: Beyond Capital-Nation-State”. I’ve been meaning to buy his Transcritique: On Kant and Marx for quite awhile, so maybe now I will.
Zizek, in Parallax View, draws heavily from Karatani, and I’m interested in reading a Japanese Marxist who is offering a theoretic project comprible to Negri’s Multitude. Basically I’m drawn to this stuff as one who is interested in alternative to global capitalism as well as how the Church might be part of this alternative.