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Aleksandr Dugin’s influence should not be overrated: he advocates for an extreme new Eurasian empire dominated by Russian Orthodoxy through military victory, and his supporters consider Putin too soft. However, what Dugin writes should be followed as an indicator of neo-fascist dangers. In a short text from September 2024, Dugin does something that shocked even me, accustomed as I am to all kinds of surprises in theory and politics: he applies Lacan’s triad of Real/Symbolic/Imaginary to analyze the roles of Donald Trump and Kamala Harris in the forthcoming U.S. presidential elections.
In this pamphlet, Slavoj Žižek discusses how Lacanian ideas are adopted by bad faith actors, and what this means for theory and its afterlife - in relation to contemporary political actors such as Dugin, Trump, Harris and - in particular - JD Vance.
The pamphlet will be shipped in November 2024.