Wednesday, August 15, 2007
(12:00 AM) | Adam Kotsko:
A Zizek Post
According to Amazon, 25% of people who look at the page for Zizek's forthcoming book preorder it. I'm not sure exactly what that number means -- perhaps they're saying that 25% of people who buy things after looking at that listing end up preordering the Zizek book. But still, that's a pretty big percentage, for what looks to be a complete retread. Have any of you preordered? If so, can you please tell me why the hell you would do such a thing?An unrelated point: As I have learned through a couple of comment threads, some people are incredulous about Zizek's use of quantum physics. I understand where they're coming from, though I think that claiming that "probabilistic determinism" is the same as plain old determinism betrays a certain over-attachment to the idea of "determinism." Nevertheless, I think we can all agree that Zizek will have jumped the shark if he ever suggests -- even jokingly! -- that the knot-theory stuff in the later Lacan anticipates string theory.
UPDATE: I would be willing to bet that In Defense of Lost Causes reprints Zizek's intros to Robespierre and Mao.
