I can't fucking stand Slavov Zizek

[Jacob Carey]

I keep hearing about this guy, anyone want to give me the run down on who
he is?


On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 9:12 AM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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