[From Wayne Schroeder] On the front cover of YODD, Zizek stands disturbed in thought in front of a burning car, set afire by a disaffected youth during the UK riots of August 2011--protests with no program and no message. What do we make of this seemingly senseless violence? The liberal left sought to explain away this phenomenon as failed social programs that “diminished Continue Reading …
Žižek on Foucault, Descartes and Madness
OK, so this isn't the easiest thing to read (after seeing numerous Žižek videos, it looks to me that he writes like he talks like he thinks, which is pretty fluid, making connections between things and not necessarily driving through focused theses...) but a little time spent on it yields some interesting points. For some context, Katie noted in the episode that Discipline Continue Reading …