In Defense of Lost Causes

[Heikki Raudaskoski]

>From "The Reality of the Virtual" - Zizek on The Sound of Music
as cryptofascist.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiTum8eQ51E&feature=related


Heikki

On Thu, 25 Sep 2008, JD wrote:

> I enjoy Zizek.  He recently gave a reading, or a talk, or something, here in
> the Boston area.  I can't say for sure what it was, because it sold out
> before I could get a ticket.  I actually won a ticket from a local radio
> station that night, and biked several miles to the theatre at which it was
> occurring before the station called me back and said the Brattle had
> informed them that they were not able to give a ticket away for that
> particular event.  Dammit.
>
> However I thought I'd mention - there's apparently a video of Zizek calling
> his readers idiots.  I trust the person who informed me of this but I've not
> found it myself.  Essentially, he apparently doesn't take himself seriously
> at all and finds people who do silly.
>
> On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 1:46 PM, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com>wrote:
>
> > Slavoj ?i?ek
> > In Defense of Lost Causes
> >
> > Publication
> > May 2008
> >
> > 504 pages
> >
> > Paper
> > ISBN-13: 978 1 84467 108 3
> > US$34.95 / £19.99 / CAN$38.50
> >
> > A witty, adrenalin-fuelled manifesto for universal values by the
> > maverick philosopher
> >
> > Is global emancipation a lost cause? Are universal values outdated
> > relics of an earlier age? In the postmodern world, ideologies of all
> > kinds have been cast in doubt. In this combative new work, renowned
> > theorist Slavoj Zizek takes on the reigning postmodern agenda with a
> > manifesto for several "lost causes." From a provocative redemption of
> > Heidegger's engagement with the Third Reich as "a right step in the
> > wrong direction" to reasserting class struggle as the underlying
> > reality of global capitalism, to a defense of the emancipatory legacy
> > of Christianity against New Age spiritualism, Zizek confronts the
> > failures of contemporary theory and proposes unexpected resolutions.
> >
> >
> > http://www.versobooks.com/books/tuvwxyz/xyz-titles/zizek_defense_lost_causes.shtml
> >
> > "In his free time, ?i?ek likes to surf the internet for child
> > pornography and teach his small son how to pull the legs off spiders"
> >
> >
> > http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/the_tls/article3800980.ece
> >
> >
>