>(see Zizek's "against the double blackmail" comments during Kosovo, wherein
>he managed to turn thoughts that any teenager capable of basic dualistic
>thinking could conceive of into the most "profound" and self-satisfied
>observations.)
no shit! as elena says, zizek made himself for export. he's interesting only insofar as he manages to work in the liminal spaces between established academic boundaries making it all appear as hip and cool to those enamored of such things [like judith butler who doesn't get beyond continental philosophy in her attempts to undermine such academic hierarchies] zizek simply weaves toether lacan, althusser, a dash of foucault, lots of durkheim'scritique of kant and some others whom i've forgotten in what are mostly entirely pedestrian analyses that play on aphorisms and catch words/phrases ideal. i read his essay on ideology that ken suggest to everyone who asks. read it five times and couldn't see one thing in there that wankfurters, gramsci and the birmingham school of cultural studies hadn't already come up with.
kelley