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[Tom Harper !agc.6D4SKQ!!6S3i+JD8/EQ No.1946058]

I've decided I need to start reading non-fiction and I intend to break up some of my regular reading too.
You guys always talk about Slavoj Žižek and I'd seen him on the Culture Show.

Is this a good place to start with Žižek?

The middle-aged scholarly type in Blackwells muttered "Fantastic" to himself when I went to pay.

[Anonymous No.1946066]

It really depends on what area of his thought you're interested in. He's quite the diverse one.

[Tom Harper !agc.6D4SKQ!!6S3i+JD8/EQ No.1946074]

>>1946066
I'm not going to lie I know nothing about the guy or his thoughts, it just seemed like the more interesting of the two books by him on offer.

[Caracalla !!S1oOkTjvsv2 No.1946078]

A good place to start with Zizek would be his latest big release, Living in the End Times, which is a bit more forgiving than some of his earlier stuff, couched in complex, abstruse psychoanalytical theorizing. Ideally, by the time, you're used to him, you'll be reading stuff like the Ticklish Subject, the Parallax View and the Sublime Object of Ideology.

Best of all, get his Pervert's Guide to Cinema, (it's on youtube), for an awesome introduction to the intricacies of his thought.

[Tom Harper !agc.6D4SKQ!!6S3i+JD8/EQ No.1946083]

>>1946078
Thanks Caracalla, I'll look up the YouTube tonight and I'll phone and see if they have the other book if not I'll order it online and put off my non-fiction reading until then.

[Truman Capote !!cO9KVBDtkqQ No.1946093]

Žižek thread?

I think it would be good.

[Truman Capote !!cO9KVBDtkqQ No.1946096]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VdFtb4zNXE

highly interesting video where Žižek talks about Julian Assange

[Anonymous No.1946106]

>>1946096
ah cool, I was meaning to look for a recording of this. thanks

[Caracalla !!S1oOkTjvsv2 No.1946116]

Reading pic related currently,

Love the fact that it's three small dialectics within one large.

The jury's out on whether I'll buy his citation of the Baddiouan event as something that could affect a lasting political transubstantiation (on Hegelian lines)