It’s Star Wars day! And we have some scholars on to discuss the importance of the Skywalker saga as a use of grand narratives of collective struggle for the Left.
Chris Cutrone’s essay on Star Wars: https://www.sublationmag.com/post/in-defense-of-the-star-wars-prequel-films
Adrian Johnston is the author of Zizek’s Ontology and a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of New Mexico. Chris Cutrone is the author of the upcoming Sublation Media book, The Death of the Millennial Left, teaches Art History, Theory and Criticism at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and is the Last Marxist who co-founded the Platypus Affiliated Society. In this video they debate the relative merits of the Slovenian Lacan Left and the Freudian Frankfurt School tradition.