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The dude that invented CDs had a vision of how to create them while meditating at the bottom of a pool, starving his brain of oxygen and seeing weird visions.
LOVE IT!
Zizek: kill those motherfuckers!
- loud applause from auditorium *
no matter how dumb Zizek's takes are sometimes, I will always respect him for opening up a whole galaxy of leftist thought to me that I probably would never have been exposed to otherwise
As someone with hyperhidrosis (though not quite as bad, and with the good sense to wear more than just a thin gray t-shirt when I'm presenting something) I'm surprised that Zizek doesn't have a Robin Williams raft of water bottles in front of him at all times.
Someone guide me down the road to pure ideology please. Haven’t read or watched much of him.
Pervert's Guide to Ideology is a good way to wade into him if you don't have a background in theory, Lacan, Althusser, and so on. After that I'd check out the locus classicus of Zizek studies, The Sublime Object of Ideology. If you're interested in more at that point, then god help you.
I've fallen deep into the Zizek hole this year, a good follow up book to Sublime Object is the Parallax View. He tries to lay out his basic philosophy and apply it to different subjects in it. After that idk, Zizek is kinda repetitive, I have to imagine you get diminishing returns in terms of new ideas after more than one or two of his books. Probably just reread those until you fully understand his worldview. Maybe after that you work backwards and start reading Lacan and Hegel to get a sense of where he's coming from.
I know Zizek is kinda a meme but he has a genuinely interesting philosophy. He talks a lot about the nature of consciousness, neuroscience and its relation to psychology and philosophy, theology, and a bunch of other topics that aren't as prominent in the internet conception of him but are very relevant to today. Plus once every hundred pages or so he'll give a review of the Star Wars prequels or something as a treat.
If I recall Parallax View has a great reading of the second Matrix movie, of all things.
