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Jodi Dean is the [[Chair]] of the [[Political]] [[Science]] Department at Hobart and William Smith College. She is the [[author]] or editor of 5 previous books including [[Empire]]'s New Clothes: [[Reading]] Hardt and Negri (Routledge 2003).
==Views==
===Identity Politics===
I have long been critical of [[identity]] [[politics]]. My first book (from my old Habermasian days) was oriented around a critique of identity politics. My later affection for [[Laclau]] and [[Mouffe]] was tempered by a critical stance toward their emphasis on the making of political identities, on the centrality of the [[construction]] of a political identity in political [[struggle]]. Part of what I like in [[Zizek]] is his critique of [[multiculturalism]] and identity politics as relying on the subordination, [[displacement]], and even erasure of [[class]] as the primary [[antagonism]]: class is not an identity [[category]] but a marker of the fundamental [[split]] around and through which societies actively [[construct]] themselves.
===Decline of Symbolic Efficiency===
I link the decline of [[symbolic]] efficiency with the decline of the availability not only of [[categories]] of identity through which to organize but also the [[absence]] of [[conditions]] of possibility for the [[formation]] of collective political identities under [[neoliberalism]].
==External Links==
[http://jdeanicite.typepad.com I Cite] - Jodi Dean's weblog
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