Liberation Hurts: An Interview with Slavoj Žižek. By Eric Dean Rasmussen
The following interview with Slavoj Žižek took place on the morning of September 29, 2003 in the Palmer House Hilton, a Gilded Age-era hotel in downtown Chicago. In the hotel's opulent lobby, it was easy to spot the bearded Žižek amongst the nattily dressed businesspeople and well-healed tourists. As befits a self-described "old-fashioned left winger," notenotenote See Geert Lovink, "Civil Society, Fanaticism, and Digital Reality: An Interview with Slavoj Žižek" in Uncanny Networks (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2002) p. 39. note1noteŽižek seemed dressed down for our meeting. Yet when he lectured at the University of Chicago's Oriental Institute later that night, Žižek wore the same striped velour shirt and casual pants and looked even more disheveled. With his comfortable attire and unassuming demeanor Žižek lacked the authority and panache of an academostar such as, say, Edward Said (whose elegant and opulent fashions even The Nation remarked upon favorably) but he instantaneously grew in stature once he began to philosophize. He spoke extemporaneously with an arresting verve and displayed the theoretical prowess and outrageous sense of humor that have established him as one of the world's foremost intellectuals. more... http://www.electronicbookreview.com/thread/endconstruction/desublimation _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
