Saturday, October 04, 2003
(10:33 PM) | Adam Kotsko:
Zizek-mania
"Heiner Mueller Out of Joint" and "Homo Sacer as Object of the Discourse of the University" are two recent Zizek finds. I have not yet read them, so if you read them real quick, you can be ahead of me.
Now that I have this blog, I'm spoiled. I don't want to go through the unbearable tedium of editing a text file so that my Zizek links page will be up to date. I still maintain that my link page on Zizek is the best I've ever seen, and I defy anyone to send me a link to a better one (so that I can find new links through that page and exceed it).
UPDATE: I have now read the Homo Sacer one, and it duplicates a significant chunk of the lecture I attended Monday night, if anyone's interested. I didn't read the entire Mueller one, because it seems to be basically duplicated from most of his recent books, most notably The Ticklish Subject --
it is an analysis of a situation he hasn't addressed before, but it leads him to some very well-worn answers. As a sidenote, in On Belief, there are two solid pages that are repeated, virtually word-for-word, twice within the same book. The repetition might be part of what attracts me to him, since my dad often repeats stories and since I have considerable anxiety about repeating my own stories. I figure that if it's okay for the latest academic superstar, then, darn it, it must be okay for me.
If anyone knows of a Lacanian analyst in the Kankakee area, let me know, because I need to get some of this stuff worked out so I can finally get around to that jouissance I've heard so much about.
