I can't fucking stand Slavov Zizek

[David Morris]

I'm with you.

On Wednesday, May 7, 2014, Lemuel Underwing <luunderwing at gmail.com> wrote:

> Change my mind? I respect the opinions of this list (for a reason that
> suddenly escapes me) and I would like to keep most of my vitriol away from
> those dear friends of mine who love Zizek.
> They all seem to have a thing in common: they've picked up and never
> finished *Gravity's Rainbow* but love *Infinite Jest* -- and that seems,
> in my more impoverished states of mind, to inform a wider inability on
> their part to come to terms with Postmodernism without a Very Strong tether
> of Pop Culture. .
> Zizek seems to me to be the worst kind of poseur, regurgitating whatever
> philosophy book he just read with an unhealthy dose of pop-culture
> references mixed in. I do not see time being at all kind to him (or to
> David Foster Wallace, for that matter)
>
> What would you recommend I read to change my mind about this guy -- who
> seems unable to smell his own asshole, and is followed by a plethora of
> Hipster Youth all eager to suck his Culturally Aware Cock...?
> What the fuck *is *Cultural Awareness anymore?
>
>
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