I had originally intended this as a comment on JJ’s recent critique of Zizek’s theology (which is really a theological critique of ideology, via Marx, Hegel, et al. — the usual playe… more →
Kulturkritikwrote 2 hours ago: In the last decade or so, one has frequently heard people express the sentiment that it is somehow … more →
wrote 23 hours ago: This post will serve as an introduction to and index of a series of posts where I blog though Žižek … more →
wrote 1 day ago: So I just finished reading The Monstrosity of Christ, a dialogue between Slavoj Žižek and “rad … more →
wrote 1 day ago: Hardt and Negri’s recently published Declaration, like their coauthored Empire series before i … more →
wrote 1 day ago: I’ve been meaning to write a post on this subject for a while, and recently I’ve been re … more →
wrote 1 day ago: Slavoj Žižek: “The trouble with defending European civilisation against the immigrant threat i … more →
wrote 2 days ago: “Here is the paradox that sustains the ‘free vote’ in democratic societies: one is free to cho … more →
wrote 2 days ago: A basic fact which we have to accept is that philosophy – no matter what the tradition – … more →
wrote 3 days ago: Interesting comments by David Berry at Stunlaw on Object-Oriented Ontology (OOO) based around what … more →
wrote 4 days ago: prea mișto ca s-o pierd în imediatul facebookului și să n-o bag la arhivă: [via the onion] și totuși … more →
wrote 6 days ago: First Zizek explains the backdrop: In an old Christian melodrama, a temporarily blinded ex-soldier f … more →
wrote 6 days ago: Voyou observed on Twitter that while The Parallax View was supposed to be Zizek’s magnum opus, … more →
wrote 1 week ago: One of the most glaringly obvious critiques of Kierkegaard’s Christian existentialism is that … more →
wrote 1 week ago: Sometimes all it takes for us to have that ‘aha’ moment, that revelatory kernel of truth that wakes … more →
wrote 1 week ago: George Bernard Shaw’s Heartbreak House fashions itself in the Russain tradition according to its aut … more →
wrote 1 week ago: Mr. Draper, you’re trying to seduce me. Aren’t you? Žižek starts his wonderful documenta … more →
wrote 1 week ago: In The Metastases of Enjoyment, Slavoj Zizek introduces the concept of “repressive desublimati … more →
wrote 1 week ago: Via @MrTeacup, I learned that Zizek recently concluded one of his public lectures with a summary and … more →
wrote 1 week ago: Magritte [Muzeul Magritte, Bruxelles] & Tinto Brass [din Action, 1980] … more →