Posts Tagged: Slavoj Zizek


14
Aug 08

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…