Archive for the ‘ Zizek ’ Category
On intellectual styles: observations on the interface between personality and thought. We would have to imagine a slope in which the influence the personality exercises over thinking increases in proportion to the strength of several factors. The first would be age: in youth, personality plays an inordinate role in intellectual matters. This is largely because [ READ MORE ]
Who believes anymore that the problem of representation requires another moment in the theoretical limelight? Or a better question: when do theoretical fashions become threadbare? I mean this in the most practical sense of the word “when.” At what moment does the makeshift construction, pieced together — holes, cracks, misfits and all — out of [ READ MORE ]