Slavoj Zizek Knows Your Next Move

It’s difficult to know which is more amusing. First you have the original interview with the greatest living Slovenian, with gems such as:

What do you most dislike about your appearance?

That it makes me appear the way I really am.

Then you have the comments on Marginal Revolution, which range from clueless:

He sounds like a grumpy and possessive old man.

to tragic:

I am a mainstream philosophy professor in an very prestigious American university, and I have never heard of this guy.

to brilliant:

“Does he have a blog?”

One might be forgiven for thinking that he actually maintains every LiveJournal in existence.

This interview format is ridiculous, and a gift to an absurdist such as Zizek. The point of it is not to be informative but entertaining, and so Zizek entertains. I like the idea of Zizek with his own blog, but it’s hard to imagine how he could beat the absurdity of blog posts and comments like these…