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To the academic world's small population of postmodernists, Slavoj Zizek - a shambling, rambling Slovenian philosopher - is a folk hero. At any lecture podium, any time, anywhere, he will emit hazy clouds of gaseous theory with the speedy intensity and comic riffs of Bill Hicks.
JakobVirgil · 4347 days ago · link ·
The thesis of the article that Zizek is a Leninist contains a bit of conspiracy thinking as Zizek points out that he is not in nearly every talk. With this said he is a pretty good comedian.
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JakobVirgil · 4346 days ago · link ·
I think taking the comedic route is the best way to go in post-modernism.
The humorless right-wing variety borders on fascism.
- When Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari say we should all become schizophrenic, when the gay Michel Foucault embraces the murderously homophobic Ayatollah Kho meini, when Zizek suggests a return to Leninist terror - these very positions are admissions that postmodernism is merely an unserious confection by intellectuals. It leads nowhere except to demoralisation and disaffection.
I'll buy the critique, but not this conclusion.