Thanks to Barry Graham, this is what I was trying to say about We Are the 99% the other day, from Slavoj Žižek: “We all accept liberal democratic capitalism, even during this current pan-European disaster,” Žižek says. “We timidly ask, … Continue reading
From Slavoj Žižek’s Enjoy Your Symptom. In Chaplin’s films, we even find a kind of wild theory of the origins of comedy from the blindness of the audience, i.e., from such a split caused by the mistaken gaze: in The … Continue reading
This is a clip from The Pervert’s Guide to Cinema. I liked The Matrix as much as anybody, I guess, but the point Zizek makes in the first few minutes here is exactly what stuck in my craw.
I’m finally reading Zizek’s Violence, and it’s almost exactly what I wanted it to be. In fact, I’d say I even understand better’n eighty percent of it, which is kind of a record for a theory book. This bit from The … Continue reading
From Conversations with Žižek. Now in Slovenia the structure was that if you wanted to go abroad as a researcher you had to submit an invitation, and if the invitation was a serious one, then it was pretty automatic that … Continue reading
From Žižek’s new book, Violence, which it looks like I’ll be reading. (Stolen from this article at red pepper.) The exemplary figures of evil today are not ordinary consumers who pollute the environment and live in a violent world of … Continue reading
I missed this when it first came out, but Zizek had a piece about Avatar in the New Statesman last month, linking Arhundati Roy’s recent writings about Maoist guerillas in India to the professed anti-Imperialism of Cameron’s flick. Rumor has … Continue reading
Žižek rails against charity. It’s enough to make me almost wish I were a Marxist. The money line: “The worst slave-owners were those who were kind to their slaves.”
Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Zizek, whom I’ve been neglecting of late for frontier biographies and true crime cop shoot-’em-ups, has a review of The Hurt Locker on the London Review of Books blog. I wasn’t a fan of the The Hurt Locker, and it looks from … Continue reading
There’s a new Zizek lecture called “Apocalyptic Times” posted at the Backdoor Broadcasting Company which I haven’t listened to yet. (And which is why I’m posting this: so I remember to listen to it when I get enough desk time … Continue reading
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