For March I’m proposing a Not School reading group on Zizek. The group will read a 25-page transcript of a talk he gave at the International Journal of Zizek Studies 2012 conference. It is, I think, a very nice summary of some of his key philosophical positions and where his current theoretical interests lie. The added advantage of this reading is that a recording of Zizek himself delivering it is available on YouTube and since Zizek is a primarily oratorical philosopher, this should provide great assistance in one’s reading. The talk itself is about 1h 30m and the text can be read much more quickly – in, perhaps, thirty minutes or, with care, an hour.
I plan to host a recorded session to walk through this reading, recording of which will be available to all Citizens (and an excerpt eventually available to everyone else via a Digest episode).
A future PEL podcast will focus one of Zizek’s works – many of which are notoriously wandering and self-referential. If you’d like to get a leg-up, this would be a great place to start! Join the group here.
You can watch the talk here; and the reading, which begins at about 2m 30s on the video, is available here .
-Michael Burgess
I can’t read him anymore without imagining his accent. It’s hilarious. Surely not all Slovenes talk that way.
He has the same reaction that you do. He never listens to his speeches nor watches the videos he makes without embarassment.