I can't fucking stand Slavov Zizek

[Jacob Carey]

And as a side question, whats wrong with Infinite Jest?


On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 9:37 AM, Jacob Carey <aristotle114 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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