/lit/ - Literature

>>4906916
>i'm a lietlle bit more of an optimisht precishely paradoxically because i'm even more a pesshimist

>'Humanity is OK, but 99% of people are boring idiots'

True say Zizek, true say:
http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2012/jun/10/slavoj-zizek-humanity-ok-people-boring

>>4805284

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>>4642535


>”Wrong. If empricism is so important, as you would say, then how come you were so empirically wrong on the Khmer Rouge and Cambodia, and so on and so on?”

>>4424623
>mfw at 11:10

>>4279877
ahhhh shit

sonhok!

Are there optimistic or upbeat books that aren't absolute shit?

Seems like all the good books are terribly pessimistic and cynical.

Zizek is a chaotic entity that slopply uses marxist, Lacanian (which I never understood exactly how he is influenced by him), deconstructionist with an emphasis on how Ideology manifests consciously and unconsciously.

He takes these basic sand box toys and plays around with them by using them to loosely relate those idealogues within the realm of social critique, film critique, and political discussion.

Combine all that with an impressive repertoire of hilarious Eastern European jokes plus verbal and physical ticks, a nerdy lisp, and a eccentric stature and appearance--you get one of the most peculiar individuals to walk the earth.

You know how we have the archetypal "village idiot"? Zizek is the idiot campus professor. He never fails to disappoint.

>>3787448
>>I am the local chapter president of the American Chesterton Society and have directed one of his plays for EWTN.

But I have a bigger penis.

>>3779436

I am happy to hear you won't be there when we roll the tanks again over your country. Sincerely.

Clichéd teen angst.

You're doing it right.

>>3706856

LOL

>>3687252

Irony is not within my arsenal. I am painfully authentic.

wassup KENNY?!

I want to read something by Slavoj Žižek.

I've seen him in interviews &c and although I don't agree with him about a lot of points, he seems a lot of fun.

I'm not particularly interested in Lacanian psychoanalysis, Alfred Hitchcock films or US foreign policy.

I hear he has written on popular culture, that sounds alright.

Any suggestions as to where I should start given I'm mostly only interested in his writing? I can handle anything in his bibliography, I'd just rather read a rant about popular culture than about Jacques Lacan.

To be honest, I'm 30+ and still frequent lit. Unashamedly, I'm sure Slavoj Zizek is today's Noam Chomsky. Thoughts?

By now I've listened to pretty much every lecture I can find and read a good number of articles, some political and some tending heavier towards theory. Where should I start with his books? There's so goddamn many . . .

And so on and so on

I love you /lit/.

Read and watched a few interviews with Slavoj Žižek today and although I don't agree with many of his viewpoints, he seems a fascinating guy.

I'd love to read something he's written, but I'm not really so interested in political science or Alfred Hitchcock movies, which seem to make up the bulk of his bibliography.

So, given that I want to read something he's written, and I don't really care what the topic is about, what are his most accessible works? I don't care whether it's hard to read, but I'd just rather not be expected to know a lot about the context in which it's set.

Probably something about popular culture would suit me best. Wikipedia says he's also written about Postmodernism, that sounds okay too.