love is evil
One of my favorite cultural critics is Slavoj Žižek, from Slovenia. He’s sassy, has an inimitable style and is really witty; kind of like the Oscar Wilde of postmodern Marxist philosophers. Here’s a Žižek linkdump for everyone.
First of all, he’s on Twitter. Or it may be him, at any rate. It’s not listed as a “verified account,” so who knows? I asked kaiserin if he was real, and she riposted “What is ‘real’?” in true Žižek-ian fashion. I had that one coming.
Here’s a cute letter to the journal Politics and Culture (not by Žižek alas), asking Obama to appoint Žižek as the United States’s first-ever Secretary of Culture.
An excellent interview with Žižek appeared in the Guardian a year ago. This may be worth reading even if you don’t know or care who Žižek is. Hilarious, in kind of a trainwreck-y way.
Finally, here’s Žižek on love: