Comments on: We Are All the Worst, But Slavoj Žižek Is the Best http://thebillfold.com/2012/06/we-are-all-the-worst-but-slavoj-zizek-is-the-best/ Everything About Money You Were Too Polite To Ask Thu, 23 May 2013 12:48:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Logan Sachon http://thebillfold.com/2012/06/we-are-all-the-worst-but-slavoj-zizek-is-the-best/#comment-6923 Logan Sachon Thu, 14 Jun 2012 21:00:21 +0000 http://thebillfold.com/?p=6358#comment-6923 oh yikes. I take it all back! (I still like the accent though) oh yikes. I take it all back! (I still like the accent though)

]]> By: alla swan http://thebillfold.com/2012/06/we-are-all-the-worst-but-slavoj-zizek-is-the-best/#comment-6920 alla swan Thu, 14 Jun 2012 20:52:10 +0000 http://thebillfold.com/?p=6358#comment-6920 I saw him speak a few months ago, and it was surprisingly disappointing. He would ramble on and on about examples of what he was trying to say, and then go, "What was I trying to say? Well, for example..." and then when he took questions, he kept saying he didn't have time to go into what the person asked. His examples weren't very well thought-out, either. He used the "genetically-modified apple" example again, and it bothered me because he doesn't even know that such a thing does not exist. (Well, it looks like a Canadian company is trying to make it happen, but still. It just isn't a thing.) Also I feel like most people don't eat organic just because it makes them feel warm and fuzzy. It's because they don't want to ingest fucking poison. Just not a thoughtful example for his point. He also made a few homophobic and misogynist cracks that nobody found amusing. I saw him speak a few months ago, and it was surprisingly disappointing. He would ramble on and on about examples of what he was trying to say, and then go, “What was I trying to say? Well, for example…” and then when he took questions, he kept saying he didn’t have time to go into what the person asked. His examples weren’t very well thought-out, either. He used the “genetically-modified apple” example again, and it bothered me because he doesn’t even know that such a thing does not exist. (Well, it looks like a Canadian company is trying to make it happen, but still. It just isn’t a thing.) Also I feel like most people don’t eat organic just because it makes them feel warm and fuzzy. It’s because they don’t want to ingest fucking poison. Just not a thoughtful example for his point. He also made a few homophobic and misogynist cracks that nobody found amusing.

]]> By: stuffisthings http://thebillfold.com/2012/06/we-are-all-the-worst-but-slavoj-zizek-is-the-best/#comment-6905 stuffisthings Thu, 14 Jun 2012 19:11:56 +0000 http://thebillfold.com/?p=6358#comment-6905 @deepomega I'm about halfway through Living in the End Times right now, and, like all Zizek, it's 30% "right on!", "20% what the fuck? No.", and 50% "huh?" He is still the best at explaining to Americans how "liberal" and "left-wing" are not the same thing, though. @deepomega I’m about halfway through Living in the End Times right now, and, like all Zizek, it’s 30% “right on!”, “20% what the fuck? No.”, and 50% “huh?”

He is still the best at explaining to Americans how “liberal” and “left-wing” are not the same thing, though.

]]> By: P.J. Morse@twitter http://thebillfold.com/2012/06/we-are-all-the-worst-but-slavoj-zizek-is-the-best/#comment-6890 P.J. Morse@twitter Thu, 14 Jun 2012 16:27:33 +0000 http://thebillfold.com/?p=6358#comment-6890 Oh, and the "Pervert's Guide to Cinema"! All the more reason that campaign to get him on SNL seemed so nifty. Oh, and the “Pervert’s Guide to Cinema”! All the more reason that campaign to get him on SNL seemed so nifty.

]]> By: Andrew Plemmons Pratt@facebook http://thebillfold.com/2012/06/we-are-all-the-worst-but-slavoj-zizek-is-the-best/#comment-6888 Andrew Plemmons Pratt@facebook Thu, 14 Jun 2012 16:08:00 +0000 http://thebillfold.com/?p=6358#comment-6888 You have inspired me to finally look up what the amazing letter "Ž" is called (grapheme): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%BD You have inspired me to finally look up what the amazing letter “Ž” is called (grapheme): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%BD

]]> By: deepomega http://thebillfold.com/2012/06/we-are-all-the-worst-but-slavoj-zizek-is-the-best/#comment-6886 deepomega Thu, 14 Jun 2012 15:52:54 +0000 http://thebillfold.com/?p=6358#comment-6886 Anytime someone with a philosophy or lit background loves psychoanalysis, I write them off for life. Slavoj is dead to me. Anytime someone with a philosophy or lit background loves psychoanalysis, I write them off for life. Slavoj is dead to me.

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